 | Chauncey Giles - Future life - 1867 - 226 pages
...what we call good. It is and ever must be the measure of our good, and must determine its quality. We can no more escape from it than we can escape from the laws 6 of gravitation. Men desire to escape from hell because it is a place of torment; and to go to... | |
 | Chauncey Giles - Children - 1875 - 284 pages
...what we call good. It is and ever must be the measure of our good, and must determine its quality. We can no more escape from it than we can escape from the laws of gravitation. Men desire to escape from hell because it is a place of torment ; and to go to... | |
 | George Matheson - 1877 - 426 pages
...fact, it is only because it reiterates itself; it permeates the mediaeval world like an atmosphere, we can no more escape from it than we can escape from the air we breathe. The Dark Ages, in proportion as they divorced the soul from the immediate vision of... | |
 | John Ellis - New Jerusalem Church - 1882 - 264 pages
...what we call good. It is and ever must be the measure of our good, and must determine its quality. We can no more escape from it than we can escape from the laws of gravitation. Men desire to escape hell because it is a place of torment ; and to go to heaven... | |
 | Chauncey Giles - Future life - 1886 - 228 pages
...what we call good. It is and ever must be the measure of our good, and must determine its quality. We can no more escape from it than we can escape from, the law» 122 WHAT CONSTITUTES HAPPINESS. of gravitation. Men desire to escape from hell because it is a place... | |
 | John Ellis - New Jerusalem Church - 1886 - 328 pages
...what we call good. It is and ever must be the measure of our good, and must determine its quality. We can no more escape from it than we can escape from the laws of gravitation. Men desire to escape hell because it is a place of torment ; and to go to heaven... | |
 | Chauncey Giles - Future life - 1869 - 228 pages
...what we call good. It is and ever must be the measure of our good, and must determine its quality. We can no more escape from it than we can escape from the laws 6 of gravitation. Men desire to escape from hell because it is a place of torment; and to go to... | |
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... in humility? the ambitious and tyrannical in serving others? Their whole nature must be reversed before they could find any delight in these heavenly virtues. What we inmostly and really love is what we call good. It is and ever must be the measure... 