God the Known and God the Unknown

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A.C. Fifield, 1909 - Evolution - 91 pages
 

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Page 80 - If I climb up into -heaven, thou art there ; if I go down to hell, thou art there also. 8 If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea ; 9 Even there also shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 80 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret: and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect : and in thy book all my members were written. Which in continuance were fashioned : when as yet there was none of them.
Page 70 - For the right faith is, that we believe and confess : that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man. God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds : and man of the substance of his mother, born in the world. Perfect God, and perfect man : of a reasonable soul, and human flesh subsisting.
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Page 67 - Oriental tale; but we enthrone him upon the wings of birds, on the petals of flowers, on the faces of our friends, and upon whatever we most delight in of all that lives upon the earth. We then can not only love him, but we can do that without which love has neither power nor sweetness, but is a phantom only, an impersonal person, a vain stretching forth of arms towards something that can never fill them - we can express our love and have it expressed to us in return. And this not in the uprearing...
Page 80 - Do I not hate them, O Lord, that hate thee ? And am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee ? I hate them with perfect hatred : I count them mine enemies...
Page 80 - If I climb up into heaven, Thou art there ; if I go down to hell, Thou art there also ; if I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there also shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, peradventure the darkness shall cover me, then shall my night be turned into day. Yea, the darkness is no darkness with Thee, but the night is as clear as the day, the darkness and light to Thee are both alike.
Page 62 - All living forms, whether animal or vegetable, are in reality one animal ; we and the mosses being part of the same vast person in no figurative sense, but with as much bona fide literal truth as when we say that a man's...
Page 57 - Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm — a little universe formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute, and as numerous as the stars in the heaven.
Page 54 - ... forms have sprung. One spirit, and one form capable of such modification as its directing spirit shall think fit ; one soul and one body, one God and one Life. For the time has come when the two unities so painfully arrived at must be joined together as body and soul, and be seen not as two, but one. There is no living organism untenanted by the Spirit of God, nor any Spirit of God perceivable by man apart from organism embodying and expressing it. God and the Life of the World are like a mountain,...

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