Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

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Orestes Augustus Brownson
Benjamin H. Greene, 1848
 

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Page 332 - The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Page 333 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free. He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 522 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee ; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Page 58 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Page 259 - He that will save his life shall lose it, and he that will lose his life for my sake shall find it
Page 61 - And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Page 60 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 427 - The first proof, therefore, that the doctrine of infallibility " leads to skepticism," must be abandoned, as having no foundation for itself. 2. The second proof is no better. That certain infidel or paganizing philosophers, in the latter part of the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, maintained that propositions may be philosophically true, yet theologically false, we concede ; that this was the doctrine of the Schoolmen, or that it was ever for a moment countenanced by the Church,...
Page 60 - Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 36 - I will be bold to say, that no one who clearly understands our system, and follows it in his daily practice, can be carried about by every wind of doctrine and the cunning craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." — p. 75. Here the weak and imperfect state of the author's communion is taken as a settled fact, and also, that the perfection of the church is a thing in futuro, perhaps, but certainly not in the present. True, after this admission, the author takes courage, grows bold,...

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