Theosophy Or Psychological Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1892Longmans, Green and Company, 1893 - 594 pages |
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Page 537 - The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Page 3 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Page 6 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 243 - That from whence these beings are born, that by which when born they live, that into which they enter at their death, try to know that, that is Brahman.
Page 35 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.