Jesus and Modern Religion

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Open court publishing Company, 1908 - 155 páginas
 

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Página 137 - place of wrath and tears, Looms but the horror of the shade; And yet the menace of the years, Finds, and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll: I am the master of my fate,
Página 142 - For that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath, * * * all go anto one place; all are of the dust and all turn to dust again.
Página 131 - Let us understand once for all that the ethical progress of society, depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it". Such an
Página 135 - to be wholly untenable. Peace and the vices of civil life only flourish together. We talk of peace and learning, and of peace and plenty, and of peace and civilization, but I found that those were not the words that the muse of history coupled together, that on her lips the words were—peace and
Página 135 - strength of thought in war; that they were nourished in war and wasted in peace, taught by war and deceived by peace, trained by war and betrayed by peace, in a word, they were born in war and expired in peace.
Página 138 - the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.— Tennyson. "We
Página 104 - ' Ring out the slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Página 53 - In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain: If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than a coward.
Página 77 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
Página 147 - What if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought!

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