| Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...of evil by good. The work of creation finds its consummation, and the eternal will of the Infinite Mercy finds its fulfilment only in the restoration...that is to say, something more than our property. So long as we are able to distinguish any space whatever between the truth and us we remain outside... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 322 pages
...of apprehension, a possession constantly more intense and more spiritual of the joy of heaven—this is happiness. Happiness has no limits, because God...that is to say, something more than our property. So long as we are able to distinguish any space whatever between the truth and us we remain outside... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...of apprehension, a possession constantly more intense and more spiritual of the joy of heaven—this is happiness. Happiness has no limits, because God...involuntary, instinctive and unconscious, are really our life—that is to say, something more than our property. So long as we are able to distinguish any... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887 - 676 pages
...of evil by good. The work of creation finds its consummation, and the eternal will of the Infinite Mercy finds its fulfilment only in the restoration...that is to say, something more than our property. So long as we are able to distinguish any space whatever between the truth and us we remain outside... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1889 - 378 pages
...problem, the aim of existence. And happiness is cumulative, as misery may be. An eternal growth is an unchangeable peace, an ever profounder depth of...that is to say, something more than our property. So long as we are able to distinguish any space whatever between the truth and us we remain outside... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1890 - 376 pages
...problem, the aim of existence. And happiness is cumulative, as misery may be. An eternal growth is an unchangeable peace, an ever profounder depth of...that is to say, something more than our property. So long as we are able to distinguish any space whatever between the truth and us we remain outside... | |
| Chautauquas - 1891 - 828 pages
...bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. The center of life is neither in thought, nor in feeling, nor...consciousness there is our being itself, our very substance, out nature. Only those truths which have entered into this last region, which have become ourselves,... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - Swiss literature (French) - 1893 - 852 pages
...misery may be. An eternal growth is an unchangeable peace, an ever profounder depth of apprehensionj a possession constantly more intense and more spiritual...this last region, which have become ourselves, become spontajieous and involuntary, instinctive and unconscious, are really our life — that is to say,... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1895 - 428 pages
...problem, the aim of existence. And happiness is cumulative, as misery may be. An eternal growth is an unchangeable peace, an ever profounder depth of...that is to say, something more than our property. So long as we are able to distinguish any space whatever between the truth and us we remain outside... | |
| William Ralph Inge - Mysticism - 1899 - 442 pages
...Amiel (p. 44 of English edition) is an admirable commentary on the mystical doctrine of immanence :—" The centre of life is neither in thought nor in feeling...that is to say, something more than our property. So long as we are able to distinguish any space whatever between the truth and us, we remain outside... | |
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