 | Hendrikus Berkhof - Religion - 1920 - 604 pages
...embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they. Alfred Tennyson HENDRIKUS BERKHOF CHRISTIAN FAITH An Introduction to the Study of the Faith translated... | |
 | Robert Blaisdell - Poetry - 2003 - 116 pages
...wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from... | |
 | Tod E. Jones - History - 2003 - 362 pages
...Maurice expressed his hearty assent: Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of Thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. "Yes!," responds Maurice, "it is deeply and eternally true that 'Thou, O Lord, art more than they.'... | |
 | J. Philip Wogaman - Religion - 2004 - 226 pages
...we polish them. As Tennyson put it, Our little systems have their day They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And Thou O Lord, are more than they. Those could be hard words if we did not have confidence that the God who is more... | |
 | 陳英輝 - Authors, English - 2005 - 222 pages
...黑暗中之微光: 使之綻放光明。 Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from... | |
 | Laura Jacobs - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2006 - 180 pages
...(From Tennyson's "In Memoriam": "Our little systems have their day;/ They have their day and cease to be:/ They are but broken lights of thee,/ And thou, O Lord, art more than they.") Against this pictorial flow, four fates rise and fall in high relief. Tudor moves the four leads upstage... | |
 | William Petersen, Ardythe Petersen - Religion - 2015 - 697 pages
...ultimate questions. So he writes, "Our little systems have their day, / They have their day and cease to be: / They are but broken lights of thee, / And Thou, O Lord, are more than they." Scriptures: Job 9:10-12; Psalm 90:1-12; Hebrews 11:1 Themes: Jesus, Death, Hope... | |
 | William Henry Thorne - 1902
...necessity as the night the day that: "Those little systems have their day. They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee; And, thou, O Lord, art more than they." Chicago, 111. ADRIAN M. DOOUK. THE INFAMY AND BLASPHEMY OF DIVORCE. GLANCES AT MILTON, INGERSOLL AND... | |
 | Michael S. Kogan - Religion - 2007 - 300 pages
...it well in his poem "In Memoriam": Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be. They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they . . . Revelation is the breaking of the infinite into the finite to reveal to the finite the infinite... | |
 | Religion - 2007 - 245 pages
...wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from... | |
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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 
