Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page lxxvii
... Faith , doubt , submission , tenderness of feeling , infinite aspiration , moral passion , that straining hope of something beyond , which is the life of the religious soul- -they are all here , and the Dernier Mot with which the sad ...
... Faith , doubt , submission , tenderness of feeling , infinite aspiration , moral passion , that straining hope of something beyond , which is the life of the religious soul- -they are all here , and the Dernier Mot with which the sad ...
Page lxxxviii
... faith . The intel- lect is clear and unwavering ; but the heart clings to old traditions , and steadies itself on the rock of duty . His Calvinistic train- ing lingers long in him ; and what detaches him from the Hegelian school , with ...
... faith . The intel- lect is clear and unwavering ; but the heart clings to old traditions , and steadies itself on the rock of duty . His Calvinistic train- ing lingers long in him ; and what detaches him from the Hegelian school , with ...
Page xc
... Faith in the reality of the moral law is what he clings to when his inherited creed has yielded to the pressure of the intellect , and after all the storms of pessimism and necessitarianism have passed over him . The reconciliation of ...
... Faith in the reality of the moral law is what he clings to when his inherited creed has yielded to the pressure of the intellect , and after all the storms of pessimism and necessitarianism have passed over him . The reconciliation of ...
Page xci
... faith . ' There is but one thing needful - to possess God . All our senses , all our powers of mind and soul , are so many ways of ap- proaching the Divine , so many modes of tasting and adoring God . Religion is not a method : it is a ...
... faith . ' There is but one thing needful - to possess God . All our senses , all our powers of mind and soul , are so many ways of ap- proaching the Divine , so many modes of tasting and adoring God . Religion is not a method : it is a ...
Page xcii
... faith of his youth and his maturity bears the shock of suffering , and supports him through his last hours . He writes a few months before the end : The animal expires ; man sur- renders his soul to the author of the soul . ' We dream ...
... faith of his youth and his maturity bears the shock of suffering , and supports him through his last hours . He writes a few months before the end : The animal expires ; man sur- renders his soul to the author of the soul . ' We dream ...
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