 Evidences of Christianity ! I am weary of the word. Make a man feel the want of it ; rouse him, if you can, to the self-knowledge of his need of it ; and you may safely trust it to its own evidence, — remembering only the express declaration of Christ...  Matthew Arnold: Poet and Critic - Page 9by Arnold Schrag - 1904 - 94 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1880 - 818 pages
...and obedience.' " The quotation included is from Jeremy Taylor. In another place, Coleridge exclaims: "Evidences of Christianity ! I am weary of the word....; and you may safely trust it to its own evidence ; remembering only the express declaration of Christ himself : ' No man cometh to me, unless the Father... | |
 | Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1882 - 354 pages
...give us a rational foundation for our belief. " Evidences of Christianity ! " he used to exclaim ; " I am weary of the word : make a man feel the want of it! " Meanwhile opium had gained the grip of a fiend on him. It seemed likely that it would soon drag him... | |
 | Orville Dewey - 1883 - 828 pages
...true; and we want no other evidence." It was in this feeling, obviously, that Coleridge exclaimed, " Evidences of Christianity ! I am weary of the word....and you may safely trust it to its own evidence." * That this way of thinking is unphilosophical, that it does not properly perceive the very ground... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1884 - 512 pages
...evidences of Christianity, and the like. Evidences of Christianity ! I am weary of the word. Make it man feel the want of it ; rouse him, if you can, to...; and you may safely trust it to its own evidence, — remembering only the express declaration of Christ himself: No man comtfh to me, unless, flic Fa/... | |
 | REV. HENRY MASON BAUM - 1884 - 338 pages
...day, Dr; Paley's breakwater school of external evidences was pushed so far as to lead him to cry out: "Evidences of Christianity! I am weary of the word. Make a man feel the want of it . . and you may safely trust it to its own evidence." This reaction followed, then, in the line of... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1885 - 908 pages
...of Christianity!" exclaims the late Mr. Coleridge in one of the most popular of his prose works ; " I am weary of the word. Make a man feel the want of it and you may safely trust it to its own evidence." There can be little doubt, I think, that these words... | |
 | 1887 - 568 pages
...evidence they can have of its divine origin. Thus Coleridge, in hi* "Aids to Reflection," exclaims: " Evidences of Christianity ! I am weary of the word....it; and you may safely trust it to its own evidence — remembering only the express declaration of Christ himself: no man cometh to me, unless the Father... | |
 | Lewis French Stearns - 1890 - 500 pages
...scientific proof of Christianity. We are all familiar with the passage in the Aids to Reflection : " Evidences of Christianity ! I am weary of the •word....; rouse him, if you can, to the self-knowledge of the need of it, and you may safely trust it to its own evidence, remembering only the express declaration... | |
 | 1894 - 590 pages
...was his weariness of the eighteenth century methods of apologetic reasoning which led him to say: " Evidences of Christianity! I am weary of the word....it; rouse him, if you can, to the self-knowledge of the need of it, and you may safely trust it to its own evidence, remembering always the express declaration... | |
 | William Boyd Carpenter - 1900 - 282 pages
...appeal in the very soul of man. We have proof of this in Coleridge's own indignant expostulation, " Evidences of Christianity ! I am weary of the word....it, rouse him, if you can, to the selfknowledge of the need of it, and you may safely trust it to its own evidence, remembering always M7 the express... | |
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