The fatherhood of GodHamilton, Adams, 1879 - 183 pages |
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Abba Father able amid anthropomorphism atonement beauty become bright centre cerned character child Christian circle comes consciousness creature dark dark passage deep feeling Divine Fatherhood duty earth eternal expression eyes faith Father-name Father's house Father's love fatherly force forgive future give glorious glory heart heaven Hence Herbert Spencer higher highest Holy Father honour human idea of Fatherhood imagination influence intellectual J. S. Mill Jesus Christ King Humbert kingdom lifted light living Father look man's meaning mind moral nature ness never nobler offspring pardon parentage paternal pheno philosophers physiognomy poet possible race reached relation religion reveal round salvation saved family Saviour seen shine simply sinful sons of God sorrow soul speak spirit stars surely thank thee theology theory of atonement thing Thou tion true truth universe unseen universe unto utterance wise wonderful words
Popular passages
Page 80 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 86 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Page 85 - ... is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and The Holy One. 155 spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : that bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 48 - And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed...
Page 174 - As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets. Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
Page 36 - ... any one who is acquainted with the history of science will admit, that its progress has, in all ages, meant, and now, more than ever, means, the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and die concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity.
Page 40 - THOUGHT is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen. Heart to heart was never known; Mind with mind did never meet; We are columns left alone Of a temple once complete.
Page 130 - Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than active; Innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good : in its precepts (as has been well said) "thou shalt not" predominates unduly over "thou shalt.
Page 80 - Go thine inscrutable way, Eternal Providence ! Only let me not despair in Thee because of this inscrutableness. Let me not despair in Thee, even if Thy steps appear to me to be going back. It is not true that the shortest line is always straight.
Page 74 - ... the simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.