Thoughts on Religion & Other Subjects [with Pious Reflections for Every Day in the Month & Prayers by Fénelon.].1846 - 283 pages |
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Blaise Pascal. unhappy counterfeits in the world ; inasmuch as they are obliged to put a continual force and constraint on their genius , only that they may render themselves the most inconsistent of all men living . If they are heartily ...
Blaise Pascal. unhappy counterfeits in the world ; inasmuch as they are obliged to put a continual force and constraint on their genius , only that they may render themselves the most inconsistent of all men living . If they are heartily ...
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... obliging men to the love of God . This is what natural justice requires , and yet what no institution besides the Christian has ever commanded . It ought likewise to have some apprehension of the innate concupiscence of man , and of his ...
... obliging men to the love of God . This is what natural justice requires , and yet what no institution besides the Christian has ever commanded . It ought likewise to have some apprehension of the innate concupiscence of man , and of his ...
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... obliged to ac- count for those astonishing contrarieties which we find within us . If there be but one principle or efficient cause , one author of all things , and himself the end of all things ; the true religion must teach us to make ...
... obliged to ac- count for those astonishing contrarieties which we find within us . If there be but one principle or efficient cause , one author of all things , and himself the end of all things ; the true religion must teach us to make ...
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... obliged to love him ; that our true felicity con- sists in our dependence on him , and our only evil and misfortune ... obliging us to love God , and our concupis- cence turning our whole affection upon ourselves , we are notoriously ...
... obliged to love him ; that our true felicity con- sists in our dependence on him , and our only evil and misfortune ... obliging us to love God , and our concupis- cence turning our whole affection upon ourselves , we are notoriously ...
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... oblige you with the gift of faith . This I am unable to do , and , consequently , to make out the truth of what you sup- pose ; but you may easily abandon your pleasures ; and , by consequence , evince the certainty of what I affirm ...
... oblige you with the gift of faith . This I am unable to do , and , consequently , to make out the truth of what you sup- pose ; but you may easily abandon your pleasures ; and , by consequence , evince the certainty of what I affirm ...
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