 I envy no quality of mind or intellect in others, be it genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes...  The Cottager's monthly visitor - Side 1911831Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Owen Street - 1887 - 430 sider
...useful to me, I should prefer a firm religions belief to every other blessing, for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all...destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights, calling up the most delightful visions where the sensualist and the sceptic see only gloom, decay,... | |
 | James Henry Potts - 1888 - 562 sider
..." I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipliue of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes...life even in death, and from corruption and decay ealls up beauty and divinity; makes an instrument of torture and shame the ladder of ascent to paradise;... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, Joseph Samuel Exell, Charles Neil - 1889 - 528 sider
...wit, or fancy, but I should prefer a firm religious faith to every other blessing, for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay and apparent destruction of existence the most gorgeous of all lights, awakens life even in death,... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1889 - 534 sider
...useful to me, I should prefer a firm rcligiout belief to every other blessing. For it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over tho deeay, the destruction, of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life in death, and... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 sider
...useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all...destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights, calling up the most delightful visions, where the sensualist and sceptic view only gloom, decay, and... | |
 | Church congress - 1890 - 660 sider
...prefer," writes Sir Humphry Davy, "a firm religious faith to carry other blessings, for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay and apparent destruction of existence the most gorgeous of all lights. ; it awakens life even in death,... | |
 | Randolph Sinks Foster - 1890 - 472 sider
...vanish, throws over the decay and destruction of existence the most gorgeous of all lights, awakens life in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity." " There can be no question, I think, that the foundations of Christian belief have been, during the... | |
 | 1892 - 762 sider
...useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing. For it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay and the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all rights; awakens life even in death ; and... | |
 | John Wilson - 1899 - 362 sider
...useful, to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing. For it makes life a discipline of goodness; creates new hopes when all...existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens ]ife even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity; makes an instrument... | |
 | George T. Lemmon - 1899 - 452 sider
...or fancy, but I should prefer a firm, religious faith to every other blessing, for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay and apparent destruction of existence the most gorgeous of all lights, awakens life even in death,... | |
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