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" The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past, that the Bible is closed; the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology.... "
Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley: Two Memoirs - Page 94
by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 542 pages
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 2

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1903 - 426 pages
...original depravity. Revelation is still taking place in God's universe and it is the office of the true teacher "to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake." He found God in nature — a presence far more deeply interfused— , God in history — a stream of...
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The American Scholar

Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...seen amid miracles. All men bless * Centenary ed., Vol. 1, p. 3. and curse. He saith yea and nay only. The stationariness of religion, the assumption that...that God is, not was; that he speaketh, not spake." "Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred...
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Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker], Volume 8

Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 pages
...seen amid miracles. All men bless * Centenary ed., Vol. 1, p. 3. and curse. He saith yea and nay only. The stationariness of religion, the assumption that...that God is, not was; that he speaketh, not spake." "Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred...
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The Works of Theodore Parker: The American scholar

Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...seen amid miracles. All men bless * Centenary ed., Vol. 1, p. 3. and curse. He saith yea and nay only. The stationariness of religion, the assumption that...inspiration is past, that the Bible is closed, the fear of'degrading the character of Jesus by representing hiin as a man, indicate with sufficient clearness...
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The Works of Theodore Parker: A discourse of matters pertaining to religion

Theodore Parker - 1907 - 520 pages
...the soul let the redemption be sought. In one soul, in your soul, there are resources for the world. The stationariness of religion, the assumption that the age of inspiration is passed, that the Bible is closed; the fear of degrading the character of Jesus, by representing him...
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Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]: A discourse of ...

Theodore Parker - 1907 - 494 pages
...the soul let the redemption be sought . In one soul, in your soul, there are resources for the world. The stationariness of religion, the assumption that the age of inspiration is passed, that the Bible is closed; the fear of degrading the character of Jesus, by representing him...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...is the wonderworker. He is seen amid miracles. All men bless and curse. He saith yea and nay, only. The stationariness of religion; the assumption that...degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man,—indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology. It is the office of a true...
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Heralds of a Liberal Faith: The pioneers

Samuel Atkins Eliot - 1910 - 328 pages
...the formation of s'oul. . . . The soul knows no persons. . . . Trust thyself. It is the office of the true teacher to show us that God is, not was, that He speaketh, not spake." Just how Emerson, at so early an age and under the intellectual conditions surrounding him between...
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Heralds of a Liberal Faith: The pioneers

Samuel Atkins Eliot - 1910 - 328 pages
...emotion: 'I am Divine. Would you see God, see me, or see thee when thou also thinkest as I now think.' The fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man indicated with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology. The true Christianity is a faith...
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Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With Annotations, Volume 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1910 - 542 pages
...Address" (pp. 148, 149), beginning " In such high communion let us study the grand strokes of rectitude." The fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man indicates with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology.' The inexhaustible soul is insulted...
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