The Unseen FriendHoughton, Mifflin, 1892 - 217 pages |
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alive angels beautiful blossom body breath character CHARLES KINGSLEY child Christ Christian CLOUD OF WITNESSES conscious creature death Divine DORA GREENWELL dream earth earthly eternal eyes F. D. MAURICE face faith Father feel feet fellow-beings flower forever friendship George MacDonald give glorious glory God's hand heart heaven heavenly hidden Holy Spirit Horace Bushnell human ideal idolatry immortal Infinite inmost inspiration invisible JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Jesus light living look Lord LUCY LARCOM manity Max Müller means mortal mystery mystic nature nearer ness never ourselves pantheist perfect person Phillips Brooks poet presence R. W. Emerson reality Redeemer revealed righteousness Saint secret seen sense shape sight song soul speak strong sweet sympathy Thee things Thou thought throb tion touch true truly trust truth ture unfolding unseen unto utterance visible vision voice walk whole words worship
Popular passages
Page 121 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love...
Page 62 - The very God! think, Abib; dost thou think? So, the All-Great, were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, "O heart I made, a heart beats here ! Face, my hands fashioned, see it in myself. Thou hast no power nor may'st conceive of mine, But love I gave thee, with Myself to love, And thou must love me who have died for thee ! " The madman saith He said so: it is strange.
Page 38 - Tis the weakness in strength, that I cry for! my flesh, that I seek In the Godhead! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, for ever: a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!
Page 15 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 186 - The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination...
Page v - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 40 - And thus looking within and around me, I ever renew (With that stoop of the soul which in bending upraises it too) The submission of man's nothing-perfect to God's allcomplete, As by each new obeisance in spirit, I climb to his feet.
Page 2 - God is so good he wears a fold Of heaven and earth across his face, Like secrets kept for love, untold. But still I feel that his embrace Slides down by thrills through all things made, — Through sight and sound of every place. As if my tender mother laid On my shut lips her kisses' pressure, Half waking me at night, and said ' ' Who kissed you through the dark, dear guesser ?
Page 152 - I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation; and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures...
Page 150 - Outwatched with me the envious night; They know that never joy illumed my brow Unlinked with hope that thou wouldst free This world from its dark slavery; That thou, O awful Loveliness, Wouldst give whate'er these words cannot express...