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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,... "
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel - Page 2
by Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 487 pages
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 147

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,...
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Amiel's Journal, tr. by mrs. H. Ward, Volume 1

Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 322 pages
...I understand it, Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root...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...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...1 understand it, Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root...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...
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Good Words, Volume 27

English periodicals - 1886 - 920 pages
...graceful ease of nature. For, as the gentle Amiel has said, " Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root...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....
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The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, Volume 25

Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - Unitarianism - 1886 - 592 pages
...understand it, Christianity is above all religious ; and religion is not a method, it is a life, — a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root...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...
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Journal: The Journal Intime

Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887 - 676 pages
...I understand it, Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root...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...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...to expatiate in. 4659 " Addition : The Spectator. No. 494. Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root...radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows. 4660 Amiel : Journal. Introduction. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator. ) Religion — 'that voice of...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1889 - 378 pages
...I understand it, Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root...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...
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Journal: The Journal Intime, Volume 1

Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1895 - 428 pages
...the Divine, so many modes of tasting and adoring God. Religion is not a method: it is a life — a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root...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...
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The Unitarian, Volume 10

Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1895 - 604 pages
...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 supernatural life, mystical in its root...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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