Word: faith
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...influence on their generation as kindlers of enthusiasm, lampada vitae, by constantly holding up a certain nobler ideal in contrast with the base connivances of our daily life, and by affirming the inalienable pre-eminence of the soul. Of original men, that is, of men who had an implicit faith in the validity of their own minds and the competency of their own natures, I suppose Montaigne to have been as striking an instance as could readily be found. He more than any other man cut loose the modern from the ancient world, and emancipated the human mind from...
While skepticism broods discord and discontent, faith cannot fail to bring peace and quiet to man for that which we believe the world to be, it becomes to us. The Christian is characteristically a believer, and has ceased trying to solve those spiritual problems which are beyond the reach of the finite mind...
...Washington Gladden preached at Vespers at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. He took as his texts the passage from Paul's letter to the Corinthians "Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love," and from Ecclesiastes, "Therefore I hated life because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit." These two writers, he said, have views so opposed to one another that evidently one of them must have been very much in the wrong. And is it not so that viewed from certain...
...painter, he helped in the formation of Raphael's style. Perigino, however, was the real forerunner of Raphael. His subjects are said to have bodies belonging to the Renaissance, but souls of the middle ages. His paintings are known for their grace of pose and the fervor of faith which they express. But even as early as Perigino the relgious inspiration was passing away, he painted faces just as he saw them in life, not as religious fervor would imagine them...