| 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 - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...defeat ; on the contrary, it is strength. 28th Apj-il 1866. — I have just read the procts-verbal of the Conference of Pastors held on the 15th 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 - 1885 - 322 pages
...belief; the pure critical element dissolves it. Protestantism is a combination of two factors—the authority of the Scriptures and free inquiry; as soon...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 - 560 pages
...is a question of method which separates the two camps. I am fundamentally separated from both. As 1 understand it, Christianity is above all religious,...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
...mind and soul, are so many ways of approaching the Divine, so many modes of tasting and adoring God. Religion is not a method : it is a life — a higher...a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.' And the faith of his youth and his maturity bears the shock of suffering, and supports him through... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...approaching 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...a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.' And the faith of his youth and his maturity bears the shock of suffering, and supports him through... | |
| 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.... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887 - 676 pages
...mind and soul, are so many ways of approaching the Divine, so many modes of tasting and adoring God. Religion is not a method : it is a life — a higher...a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.' And the faith of his youth and his maturity bears the shock of suffering, and supports him through... | |
| 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... | |
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