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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 167
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: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...result, but I think the friends of the Protestant Church are logical in their refusal to abandon'the Apostles' Creed, and the individualists are illogical...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, tr. by mrs. H. Ward, Volume 1

Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 322 pages
...is a question of method which separates the two camps. I am fundamentally separated from both. As I 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...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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 I 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...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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...
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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
...a question of method which separates these two camps. I am fundamentally separated from both. As I understand it, Christianity is above all religious...overflows. Religion, in short, is a state of the soul.'' It is always futile to claim an original thinker for this or that theological camp. John Wesley was...
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Good Words, Volume 27

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....
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Journal: The Journal Intime

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...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

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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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1889 - 378 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...
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