Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...define "incredible" as it is ordinarily used, as meaning that which is not consistent with reason, there is no sense in such a statement; but what Augustine meant was that he believed something beyond what is natural or comprehensible. This must always be the case with our belief in God,- we can not know and understand Him, and any doctrine that professes this is obviously false. To know God, faith is necessary-we must believe what we cannot...
...University been conducted by an ordained Catholic priest. The fact that the Reverend Peter J. O'Callaghan graduated from the college a few years ago will make the occasion still more interesting. A better indication than this of the broad tolerance which Harvard exercises in all matters of belief could not be found...
...quickened, except it die," taken from Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians. Immortality, he said, is something in which many people find it hard to believe. It seems to them unnatural and as its truth can not be absolutely proved, they refuse to accept it. Yet the belief in immortality is something necessary for the existence of life on earth. What would all that we do here amount to, what would be the inducement to work and patience, if there were nothing to look to beyond the grave? Look a little more closely at nature and at history...
...pamphlet on "Regulations for Students of Harvard College" which anyone may secure at the college office. This pamphlet is valuable, not only because it contains those regulations which really exist, but because it thereby furnishes a means for branding as false all other regulations which bid for belief...
...assertion that belief in the kingly character of Christ brings victory over the world seems, at first sight, hard to believe. The problem is a practical one and it concerns every man. Among men of different interests and pursuits different idols are worshipped as all-powerful. At different times cotton, or coal, or sugar has been called king, and at all times among business men money has been held the highest power. Scientists believe knowledge to be the greatest ruling power. Yet no one of these powers can be truly called king of mankind. Money, that is representative...