Modern Atheism: Under Its Forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural LawsGould and Lincoln, 1857 - 423 pages |
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absolute admitted affirms analogy animal argument ascribed Atheism authority avowed belief body Certitude Christian Clairvoyance Comte conceive consciousness constitution creation Creator deny dependence distinct Divine doctrine doctrine of Chance doubt effect equally established eternal evidence exclude existence fact faculties faith fundamental ground Holyoake HUGH MILLER human mind Hylozoic idea Inductive Infidelity infinite inquiry intelligent knowledge Lamennais laws of thought manifest matter ment metaphysical Monotheism moral natural laws Natural Theology necessarily necessary object organization origin Pantheism peculiar phenomena Philosophy Phrenology physical Pierre Leroux PIERRE POIRET Polytheism prayer present principle production progress proof properties prove Providence question reason regard relation Religion religious respects revealed says Science Scripture second causes Secularism self-existent sense Skepticism soul speculations Spinoza spirit substance sufficient supernatural supposed supposition supreme tendency Theology theory of Materialism things thought tion transmutation of species true truth universe
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Page 401 - T'RULY God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Page 396 - God ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Page 30 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.
Page 402 - God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Page 399 - The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
Page 20 - He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face ; he will never see it.
Page 118 - In time it enters upon strange territory ; points of controversy alter their bearing ; parties rise and fall about it ; dangers and hopes appear in new relations, and old principles reappear under new forms ; it changes with them, in order to remain the same. In a higher world it is otherwise ; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Page 399 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 398 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.
Page 64 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.