An Introduction to the Study of Pastoral Theology

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Clarendon Press, 1912 - 291 pages
 

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Page 245 - Denn eben wo Begriffe fehlen, Da stellt ein Wort zur rechten Zeit sich ein.
Page 38 - I say, the acknowledgment of God in Christ Accepted by thy reason, solves for thee All questions in the earth and out of it, And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
Page 119 - First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted - better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out. Have you noticed, now, Your cullion's hanging face? A bit of chalk, And trust me but you should, though! How much more, If I drew higher things with the same truth! That were to take the Prior's pulpit-place, Interpret God to all of you!
Page 94 - Will you be diligent in prayers, and in reading of the holy Scriptures, and in such studies as help to the knowledge of the same, laving aside the study of the world and the flesh ? Answer.
Page 128 - So too in youth, the real plastic energy is not in tutors or lectures or in books 'got up,' but in Wordsworth and Shelley ; in the books that all read because all like ; in what all talk of because all are interested ; in the argumentative walk or disputatious lounge ; in the impact of young thought upon young thought, of fresh thought on fresh thought, of hot thought on hot thought ; in mirth and refutation, in ridicule and laughter : for these are the free play of the natural mind, and these cannot...
Page 244 - Learn to distinguish between them, for you have the authority of Hooker, that " the mixture of those things by speech, which by nature are divided, is the mother of all error.
Page 118 - La moindre chose contient un peu d'inconnu. Trouvons-le. Pour décrire un feu qui flambe et un arbre dans une plaine, demeurons en face de ce feu et de cet arbre jusqu'à ce qu'ils ne ressemblent plus, pour nous, à aucun autre arbre et à aucun autre feu.
Page 123 - Preface.- The metaphysical proofs of God are so remote from the reasoning of men, and so complicated, that they make little impression; and if they should be of service to some, it would be only during the moment that they see such demonstration; but an hour afterwards they fear they have been mistaken.
Page 224 - In matters which concern the actions of God, the most dutiful way on our part is to search what God hath done, and with meekness to admire that, rather than to dispute what he in congruity of reason ought to do.
Page 126 - This spiritual Love acts not nor can exist Without Imagination, which, in truth, Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And Reason in her most exalted mood.

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