Spirit-life in God the Spirit: A Meditation on God and Immortality

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Williams & Norgate, 1874 - 35 pages
 

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Page 8 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 14 - Myriads of organised beings may exist imperceptible to our vision, even if we were among them...
Page 8 - I from moment to moment lead, then all so-called "common-sense" is meaningless. But if such an integral experience is real, then that by which the pragmatic " workings " of our private and personal opinions are to be tested and are tested is a certain integral whole of life in which we all live and move and have our being, but which is no more the mere heap and collection of our moments of fragmentary experience, and of our vicissitudes of shifting moods, than a symphony is a mere collection of notes...
Page 28 - ... eye of an eagle, what is at a greater; the eye of an angel, what is at a thousand times greater distance ; (perhaps taking in the surface of the earth at one view ;) how shall not the eye of God see every thing, through the whole extent of creation ? Especially considering, that nothing is distant from him, in whom we all " live, and move, and have our being.
Page 33 - Our saved soul, still enclosed in this vile body, deeply participates in the feelings of " the whole creation which groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now ; yearning to be delivered from the bondage of corruption.
Page 19 - ... with Him who worketh in us and with us, " to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Page 7 - Athens who delighted in nothing so much as " to tell or to hear some new thing...

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