 | 1927 - 594 pages
...itself, "mystical in its roots and practical in its fruits"? Or do you like to think of it, above all, as "communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a...radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows" — in short, a state of the soul? Whatever may be your belief, faith, doubt, perplexity, or fear,... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 322 pages
...am fundamentally separated from both. As I understand it, Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and...radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows. Eeligion, in short, is a state of the soul. These quarrels as to method have their value, but it is... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...am fundamentally separated from both. As 1 understand it, Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and...radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows. Religion, in short, is a state of the soul. These quarrels as to method have their value, but it is... | |
 | English periodicals - 1886 - 920 pages
...article, which lacks the sweetness and graceful ease of nature. For, as the gentle Amiel has said, " Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and...a force which acts, a happiness which overflows." " This wealth of waters might but кoт to dmw From yon dark cave, but, eon, the source is higher.... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - Unitarianism - 1886 - 592 pages
...am fundamentally separated from both. As I understand it, Christianity is above all religious ; and religion is not a method, it is a life, — a higher...radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows. Religion, in short, is a state of the soul.'' It is always futile to claim an original thinker for... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887 - 676 pages
...am fundamentally separated from both. ^As I understand it, Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and...radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows. Religion, in short, is a state of the soul. -\ These quarrels as to method have their value, but it... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in. 4659 Addinon : The Spectator. No. 494. Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and...radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows. 4660 Amiel : Journal. Introduction. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator. ) Religion — that voice of the... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1889 - 378 pages
...am fundamentally separated from both. As I understand it, Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and...radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows. Religion, in short, is a state of the soul. These quarrels as to method have their value, but it is... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1895 - 428 pages
...mind, the soul the fruit of life, and liberty the flower of necessity.' Consciousness is the one fixed point in this boundless and bottomless gulf of things,...overflows.' And the faith of his youth and his maturity hears the shock of suffering, and supports him through his last hours. He writes a few months before... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1895 - 604 pages
...part," — till the days of my prophesying are ended, and I know at last "even as also I am known." Religion is not a method: it is a life, a higher and...radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows. — Amiel. MAN A FACTOR IN EVOLUTION. Nature includes human nature. Man \aa part of the creation. For... | |
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Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits, a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts,... 
