 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...even in death ; from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity, and makes the very Cross, that instrument of torture and of shame, the ladder of...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair. Sir H- Davy, Saimonia. RELIGION. RELIGION'S... | |
 | David Thomas - 1881 - 446 pages
...of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay and apparent destruction of existence the most gorgeous of all...of everlasting joys— where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and death." THE GOSPEL. — " Let mental culture go on... | |
 | Religion - 1881 - 552 pages
...an instrument of torture and of shame tho ladder of ascent to paradise, and, far above FAITH FAITH all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most...everlasting joys — where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and death. Sir Humphrey Davy. Faith is necessary to victory.... | |
 | Great thoughts - 1882 - 742 pages
...; and far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions and plains and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair. — Davy, BELIEF. — The Flower and Fruit... | |
 | Jerome Paine Bates - Conduct of life - 1886 - 882 pages
...blest, and the security of everlasting joys. And where the Christian believer sees and enjoys all this, the sensualist and the skeptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation and despair." The fact is, faith as a power in life is even stronger than sight, for by constant sight, as JB Walker... | |
 | James Henry Potts - Apologetics - 1888 - 562 pages
...earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions, palms and amaranths, the gardens of the blessed, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the skeptic view only gloom, decay, and anihilation." In the hope of inspiring faith in some, and of quickening faith in many others, we... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1899 - 362 pages
...all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths, thn gardens of the blest, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair." c. The mode of punctuation recommended... | |
 | Apologetics - 1903 - 92 pages
...paradise; and far above all combinations of earthly hopes calls up the most delightful visions of plains and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation and despair." SIR H. DAVY. "All intelligent thinkers upon... | |
 | Helen Keller - New Jerusalem Church - 1927 - 230 pages
...death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity; makes an instrument of torture and shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise; and far above...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair." It is like a Pentecostal experience thus to feel in my hand the strong hand of a calm scientific man... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 638 pages
...firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness—creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish; and throws...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, deray, annihilation, and despair!'—p. 13C. AVe might quote other passages,... | |
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I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights... 
