 For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept• the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.  Science - Page 4021884Full view - About this book
 | John Mackintosh - 1893 - 476 pages
...our finite power of comprehension, a belief in the immortality of the soul appears to be requisite, as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. It seems to me, that only on such a view can the reasonableness of the universe maintain its ground.... | |
 | 1893 - 180 pages
...the ages. We believe in immortality, as an eminent modern philosopher and evolutionist has said, " as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Faith is thus at once the characteristic and the strength of finite intelligence. It is the divine... | |
 | Charles Barnes Upton - 1894 - 384 pages
...alleged, or is ever likely to allege, a sufficient reason for our accepting so dire an alternative. For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work."1 The general result, then, to which the thoughts which I have sought to express in these Lectures... | |
 | 1894 - 384 pages
...alleged, or is ever likely to allege, a sufficient reason for our accepting so dire an alternative. For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work."1 The general result, then, to which the thoughts which I have sought to express in these Lectures... | |
 | Charles Barnes Upton - 1894 - 384 pages
...alleged, or is ever likely to allege, a sufficient reason for our accepting so dire an alternative. Tor my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work."1 The general result, then, to which the thoughts which I have sought to express in these Lectures... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1894 - 1232 pages
...intelligible when otherwise it would sink in confusion and defeat. "For my own part," says John Fiske, "I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Man is God's creature, the evolution of Mis thought and the product of His love, and his instinctive... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1894 - 1214 pages
...intelligible when otherwise it would sink in confusion and defeat. "For my own part," says John Fiske, "I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Man is God's creature, the evolution of His thought and the product of His love, and his instinctive... | |
 | Henry Reuben Rose - 1894 - 262 pages
...dire an alternative. . . . For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the soul ... as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." In the very nature of things, man must be immortal. If man were to sink back into nothingness, God... | |
 | Ian Maclaren - 1896 - 414 pages
...the spiritual and the confusion of the moral are unthinkable. ' For my own part,' says Mr. Fiske, ' I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.' It is incredible that when the long evolution of nature has come to a head the flower should be flung... | |
 | Ian Maclaren, John Watson - 1896 - 360 pages
...the spiritual and the confusion of the moral are unthinkable. ' For my own part,' says Mr. Fiske, ' I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.' It is incredible that when the long evolution of nature has come to a head the flower should be flung... | |
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