The Philosophy of ReligionLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1849 - 427 |
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Strona 292 - Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Strona 400 - The light of the body is the eye. If therefore, thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light ; but if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.
Strona 400 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him : neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
Strona 165 - in the impartation of clear intuitions of moral and spiritual truth to the mind by extraordinary means. According to this view of the case, inspiration, as an internal phenomenon, is perfectly consistent with the natural laws of the human mind — it is a higher kind of potency, which every man / to a certain degree possesses (p. 166). This view, he thinks, "gives full consistency to the progressive character of Scripture morality
Strona 18 - As sensation reveals only subjective facts, while perception involves a direct intuition of the objective world around us; so with regard to higher truths and laws, the understanding furnishes merely the subjective forms in which they may be logically stated, while intuition brings us face to face with the actual matter, or reality of truth itself.
Strona 151 - Inspiration does not imply anything generically new in the actual processes of the human mind. It does not involve any form of intelligence essentially different from what we already possess ; it indicates rather the elevation of the religious consciousness, and with it, of course, the power of spiritual vision, to a degree of intensity peculiar to the individuals thus highly favoured of God.
Strona 143 - The actual revelation was not made primarily in the book, but in the mind of the writers; and the power which that book possesses of conveying a revelation to us, consists in its aiding in the awakenment...
Strona 24 - Faith subsists in the synthesis of the reason and the individual will. By virtue of the latter therefore it must be an energy, and inasmuch as it relates to the whole moral man, it must be exerted in each and all of his constituents or incidents, faculties and tendencies ; — it must be a total, not a partial; a continuous, not a desultory or occasional energy.
Strona 155 - They taught specific notions inconsistent with a pure spiritual Christianity, as Peter did when he was chided by Paul.
Strona 183 - And what, after all, need we in the Scriptures more than this ] Why should we be perpetually craving after a stiff, literal, verbal infallibility ? Christianity consists not in propositions — it is a life in the soul ; its laws and precepts are not engraven on stone, they can only be engraven on the fleshy tables of the heart.