From Different Points of View: Benjamin Fiske Barrett, Preacher, Writer, Theologian, and PhilosopherSwedenborg Publishing Association, 1896 - 211 páginas |
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Página 194 - O brothers! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The sure and safer way. And Thou, O Lord! by whom are seen Thy creatures as they be, Forgive me if too close I lean My human heart on Thee!
Página 25 - I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever : and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Página 102 - Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man ; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one...
Página 193 - Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne — Yet the scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own...
Página 3 - No life Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.
Página 3 - ... the Throne And gaze into the Face that makes glorious their own, Know this, surely, at last. Honest love, honest sorrow, Honest work for the day, honest hope for the morrow, Are these worth nothing more than the hand they make weary, The heart they have saddened, the life they leave dreary ? Hush ! the sevenfold heavens to the voice of the Spirit Echo : He that o'ercometh shall all things inherit.
Página 68 - To those, then, who ask what are to be the conditions in the other life of the countless myriads of men who have been going out of this world through countless ages, all the. answer that can be given, is : We know not. We know not whether from other sources than this earth heaven is thronged and populated. We know not where heaven is. We know not what it is.
Página 81 - But some are perhaps ready to ask, "Why should there have been any cloud about the Holy Oracles ? Why did the Lord place this covering upon the internal glory of his Word ? Why was it not composed in such a manner that the genuine truth could be readily perceived by every one...
Página 167 - House with his trunk on his shoulder, and I asked him where he was going. He said he was going to change his old trunk.
Página 139 - ... thereby elicited. There are natural day and night, and spiritual day and night ; day and night in the natural realm, and day and night in the soul ; and they correspond one to the other. When the face of the earth is turned toward the sun, it is day-time in the world ; and when man's heart or will (his spiritual face) is turned toward the Lord, it is day-time in the soul. But when the earth is turned away from the sun, it is night in the world ; and when the heart is turned away from the Lord,...