Outlines of the Religion and Philosophy of Swedenborg

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New church board of>þublication, 1903 - 382 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 96 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that do I.
الصفحة 36 - And I saw no temple therein ; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it ; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it ; and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
الصفحة 269 - Faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons: nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son : and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the glory equal, the Majesty coeternal.
الصفحة 325 - Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
الصفحة 51 - ... the arrow that flieth by day, the pestilence that walketh in darkness, the destruction that wasteth at noon-day...
الصفحة 302 - These truths, passing out of his system into general circulation, are now met with every day, qualifying the views and creeds of all churches, and of men of no church. And I think we are all aware of a revolution in opinion. Sixty years ago, the books read, the sermons and prayers heard, the habits of thought of religious persons, — were all directed on death. All were under the shadow of Calvinism, and of the Roman Catholic purgatory; and death was dreadful.
الصفحة 27 - And grotesque in relation to scientific culture as many of the religions of the world have been and are dangerous, nay destructive, to the dearest privileges of freemen as some of them undoubtedly have been, and would, if they could, be again — it will be wise to...
الصفحة 148 - When he has looked about him as far as he can, he concludes there is no more to be seen...
الصفحة 30 - You who have escaped from these religions into the high-and-dry light of the intellect may deride them; but in so doing you deride accidents of form merely, and fail to touch the immovable basis of the religious sentiment in the nature of man. To yield this sentiment reasonable satisfaction is the problem of problems at the present hour.
الصفحة 73 - ... and therefore the measure of our happiness must be our reception and appropriation of love, — or our happiness must be measured in kind and in degree by the kind and measure of our loving. The best and highest possible love must be our love for Him who is best and highest, and our infinite benefactor. We are therefore commanded to love the Lord our God with all the heart and soul...

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