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There is no single realm of the human mind which is without its witness . The laws of thought imply a Lawgiver as certainly as do those outward laws by which the material universe is fashioned and controlled . Passing from the world of ...
There is no single realm of the human mind which is without its witness . The laws of thought imply a Lawgiver as certainly as do those outward laws by which the material universe is fashioned and controlled . Passing from the world of ...
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( 6 ) Driven from within himself , the hunted soul sought covert in human love . “ I pled by many a hearted casement . ” “ But , if one little casement parted wide , the gust of His approach would clash it to .
( 6 ) Driven from within himself , the hunted soul sought covert in human love . “ I pled by many a hearted casement . ” “ But , if one little casement parted wide , the gust of His approach would clash it to .
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Heaven and I wept together . And its srocet tears were salt with mortal mine . Against the red throb of its sunset - heart I laid my own to beat , And share commingling heat ; But not by that , by that , was eased my human smart .
Heaven and I wept together . And its srocet tears were salt with mortal mine . Against the red throb of its sunset - heart I laid my own to beat , And share commingling heat ; But not by that , by that , was eased my human smart .
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He is like the prophet , in that little understood book of our sacred scriptures , who thought to put the seas between him and Jehovah , but found Him walking on the waters ; who imagined that human life outside Chere is .
He is like the prophet , in that little understood book of our sacred scriptures , who thought to put the seas between him and Jehovah , but found Him walking on the waters ; who imagined that human life outside Chere is .
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There is a cross at the heart of human blessedness . Grim and inexorable as it appears at times the Will of God holds life's richest treasures . When Francis Thompson understood this , he was content to commit his life “ to the Great ...
There is a cross at the heart of human blessedness . Grim and inexorable as it appears at times the Will of God holds life's richest treasures . When Francis Thompson understood this , he was content to commit his life “ to the Great ...
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| Title | Spiritual Voices in Modern Literature |
| Author | Trevor H. Davies |
| Publisher | George H. Doran Company, 1919 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 18 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 312 pages |
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