| 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 - 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... | |
| 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 - 560 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 - 560 pages
...Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and superi\atural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits,...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 - 1890 - 376 pages
...responsibility, and M. Renan dismisses them with this half-tolerant, half-sceptical smile, that M. Renan's Souvenirs inform and entertain us, while the Journal...expires ; man surrenders his soul to the author of the soul.' . . . ' We dream alone, we suffer alone, we die alone, we inhabit the last resting-place alone.... | |
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