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Elevation of thought and style demands the lowly , reverent mind . This principle is supremely true in religion and character : we suffer when there is no wonder in our hearts . There are some truths which cannot even be seen until we ...
Elevation of thought and style demands the lowly , reverent mind . This principle is supremely true in religion and character : we suffer when there is no wonder in our hearts . There are some truths which cannot even be seen until we ...
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We pursue , it would seem , One who eludes our groping thought ; we hear the sweep of His garment , but when we go forward He is not there . It is of very deep significance that we have never been able to give up the quest .
We pursue , it would seem , One who eludes our groping thought ; we hear the sweep of His garment , but when we go forward He is not there . It is of very deep significance that we have never been able to give up the quest .
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We are like that wanderer of old coming along the trail at the close of day , faint and lonely , who thought he had left his father's God behind him because he had left his father's tent , but discovered , as he lay down to rest upon ...
We are like that wanderer of old coming along the trail at the close of day , faint and lonely , who thought he had left his father's God behind him because he had left his father's tent , but discovered , as he lay down to rest upon ...
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The laws of thought imply a Lawgiver as certainly as do those outward laws by which the material universe is fashioned and controlled . Passing from the world of thought into that of the emotions , with “ its vistaed hopes , and chasméd ...
The laws of thought imply a Lawgiver as certainly as do those outward laws by which the material universe is fashioned and controlled . Passing from the world of thought into that of the emotions , with “ its vistaed hopes , and chasméd ...
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And that thought drives him back to earth with the unperturbed and deliberate patter of the feet ever behind him . ( d ) Coming back to earth he seeks a hiding place in the innocent life of little children .
And that thought drives him back to earth with the unperturbed and deliberate patter of the feet ever behind him . ( d ) Coming back to earth he seeks a hiding place in the innocent life of little children .
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| Title | Spiritual Voices in Modern Literature |
| Author | Trevor H. Davies |
| Publisher | George H. Doran Company, 1919 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 18 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 312 pages |
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