The Idea of God as Affected by Modern KnowledgeHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 173 sayfa |
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Sayfa 173 - The work constitutes a very effective encyclopedia of 'the evolutionary philosophy, and is well worth the study of all who wish to see at once the entire scope and purport of the scientific dogmatism of the day.
Sayfa 116 - There was no roof over this office, and the walls rose scarcely five feet from the floor, so that a person standing at the desk could look out upon the whole world. There were two persons at the desk, and one of them — a tall, slender man, of aquiline features, wearing spectacles, with a pen in his hand and another behind his ear — was God. The other, whose appearance I do not distinctly recall, was an attendant angel. Both were diligently watching the deeds of men and recording them in the ledgers.
Sayfa xxvi - ... our lives, alike physical and mental, in common with all the activities, organic and inorganic, amid which we live, are but the workings...
Sayfa 165 - ... night and from night till morning ; but where do they stop, and who makes them flow thus ? The clouds also come and go, and burst in water over the earth. Whence come they — who sends them ? The diviners certainly do not give us rain; for how could they do it ? and why do...
Sayfa 164 - Twelve years ago I went to feed my flocks ; the weather was hazy. I sat down upon a rock and asked myself sorrowful questions ; yes, sorrowful, because I was unable to answer them. Who has touched the stars with his hands — on what pillars do they rest, I asked myself.
Sayfa 163 - When from the dawn of life we see things working together toward the evolution of the highest spiritual attributes of Man, we know, however the words may stumble in which we try to say it, that God is in the deepest sense a moral Being. The everlasting source of phenomena is none other than the infinite Power that makes for Righteousness.
Sayfa xxix - ... incorruptible, and which neither inevitable misfortune nor unmerited obloquy can take away. Thus, though we may not by searching find out God, though we may not compass infinitude or attain to absolute knowledge, we may at least know all that it concerns us to know, as intelligent and responsible beings.
Sayfa 173 - I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are...