 | New Church gen. confer - 1853 - 500 pages
...provided the hungry multitudes of Galilee with food. ' Depend upon it,' says an eloquent preacher, ' depend upon it, it is not the want of greater miracles,...God's hand is, there is miracle, and it is simply an undevoutness which imagines that only where miracle is, can there be the real hand of God. The customs... | |
 | James Martineau - 1848 - 344 pages
...think we should discern him any more on the grass of Eden, or beneath the moonlight of Gethsernane. Depend upon it, it is not the want of greater miracles,...where miracle is, can there be the real hand of God. The customs of heaven ought surely to be more sacred in our eyes than its anomalies ; the dear old... | |
 | James Martineau - 1847 - 372 pages
...think we should discern him any more on the grass of Eden, or beneath the moonlight of Gethsemane. Depend upon it, it is not the want of greater miracles,...where miracle is, can there be the real hand of God. The customs of heaven ought surely to be more sacred in our eyes than its anomalies ; the dear old... | |
 | James Martineau - 1847 - 378 pages
...think we should discern him any more on the grass of Eden, or beneath the moonlight of Gethsemane. Depend upon it, it is not the want of greater miracles,...where miracle is, can there be the real hand of God. The customs of heaven ought surely to be more sacred in our eyes than its anomalies ; the dear old... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1848 - 788 pages
...think we should discern him any more on the grass of Eden, or beneath the moonlight of Gethsemane. Depend upon it, it is not the want of greater miracles,...where miracle is, can there be the real hand of God."* We disapprove of some of the direct expressions of this passage. It is not, in our opinion, true that... | |
 | James Martineau - 1848 - 314 pages
...think we should discern him any more on the grass of Eden, or beneath the moonlight of Gethsemane. Depend upon it, it is not the want of greater miracles,...and it is simply an indevoutness which imagines that onry where miracle is, can there be the real hand of God. The customs of heaven ought surely to be... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1856 - 80 pages
...provided the hungry multitudes of Galilee with food. ' Depend upon it,' says an eloquent preacher, ' depend upon it, it is not the want of greater miracles,...perceive such as are allowed us still, that makes as push all the sanctities into the far spaces we cannot reach. The devout feel that wherever God's... | |
 | James Martineau - 1858 - 568 pages
...think we should discern him any more on the grass of Eden, or beneath the moonlight of Gethsemane. Depend upon it, it is not the want of greater miracles,...but of the soul to perceive such as are allowed us etill that makes us push all the sanctities into the far spaces we cannot reach. The devout feel that... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1863 - 424 pages
...provided the hungry multitudes of Galilee with food. ' Depend upon it,' says an eloquent preacher, ' depend upon it, it is not the want of greater miracles,...that makes us push all the sanctities into the far spares we cannot reach. The devout feel that wherever God's hand is, them is miracle, and it is simply... | |
 | 1864 - 426 pages
...think we should discern him any more on the grass of Eden, or beneath the moonlight of Gethsemane. Depend upon it, it is not the want of greater miracles,...the sanctities into the far spaces we cannot reach." How easily we grow accustomed to any unusual development of human nature of however transcendent meaning!... | |
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Depend upon it, it is not the want of greater miracles, but of the soul to perceive such as are allowed us still, that makes us push all the sanctities into the far spaces we cannot reach. 
