The Psychological Phenomena of Christianity

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C. Scribner, 1908 - 497 pages
 

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Page xviii - What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!
Page 76 - At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas! without the...
Page 465 - Why, so can I, or so can any man ; But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 339 - Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Page 71 - True, I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind...
Page 122 - Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather 205 not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
Page 445 - But he said unto them: All men cannot receive this saying, but they to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb : and there are eunuchs, which were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, which made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Page 78 - And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. 17 From henceforth let no man trouble me : for I bear branded on my body the marks of Jesus.
Page 325 - In its inner nature, belief, or the sense of reality, is a sort of feeling more allied to the emotions than to anything else.
Page 266 - There's not a sin that we commit, Nor wicked word we say, But in thy dreadful book 'tis writ, Against the judgment day.

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