Religion and Liberty: Addresses and Papers at the Second International Council of Unitarian and Other Liberal Religious Thinkers and Workers, Held in Amsterdam, September, 1903

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Petrus Hermannus Hugenholtz
E. J. Brill, 1904 - Freedom of religion - 436 pages
 

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Page xxxviii - Wenn Gott in seiner Rechten alle Wahrheit und in seiner Linken den einzigen immer regen Trieb nach Wahrheit, obschon mit dem Zusatze, mich immer und ewig zu irren, verschlossen hielte und spräche zu mir: «Wähle!» - ich fiele ihm mit Demut in seine Linke und sagte: «Vater, gib! Die reine Wahrheit ist ja doch nur für dich allein!
Page xi - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child : now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
Page 184 - I am obliged to conclude that I shall not live to see liberty universally restored to the nations of Europe, and Asiatic nations, especially those that are European Colonies, possessed of a greater degree of the same blessing than what they now enjoy.
Page 273 - Zwei zu ihnen: ,Was suchet ihr den Lebendigen bei den Toten? Er ist nicht hier — Er ist auferstanden.
Page 169 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page xix - And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Page 224 - Ich glaube einen Gott!" Dies ist ein schönes, löbliches Wort; aber Gott anerkennen, wo und wie er sich offenbare, das ist eigentlich die Seligkeit auf Erden.
Page 314 - It is here, as one may say, that the cradle of the science of International Law has stood. For centuries the important negotiations between European Powers have taken place here, and it is here that the remarkable treaty was signed which imposed a truce during the bloody conflict between states. * * * We find ourselves surrounded by great historic traditions.
Page 72 - Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. 29 And there shall come from the east and the west and the north and the south ; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 72 - There never was such a combination as this of ours, and the rules to meet it are not set down in any history. We want men of original perception and original action, who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality, — namely, to considerations of benefit to the human race, — can act in the interest of civilization ; men of elastic, men of moral mind, who can live in the moment and take a step forward.

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