item: #1 of 9 id: 11044 author: Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe- title: The Existence of God date: None words: 40761 flesch: 72 summary: Therefore there is an inward school wherein man receives what he neither can give himself, nor expect from other men who live upon trust as well as himself. This weakness of the soul, turning into unbelief, appears strength of mind to them; and their vanity glories in opposing what naturally strikes and affects the rest of mankind, just as if a monster prided in not being formed according to the common rules of Nature, or as if one born blind boasted of his unbelief with respect to light and colours, which other men perceive and discern. keywords: absolute; admire; affirm; ages; air; aliments; animals; answer; art; artificer; atoms; author; beasts; beings; better; blind; blood; bodies; body; bones; book; brain; cast; cause; centre; certain; chance; characters; clinamen; colours; combinations; command; comparison; compound; constant; contrary; creatures; day; degree; deity; dependent; design; different; direct; distinct; divine; doubt; earth; end; epicureans; essence; essential; eternal; exact; excellent; existence; eyes; face; fall; fenelon; figure; flesh; fluid; food; form; frame; free; god; good; great; ground; hand; head; heaven; high; house; human; idea; ignorant; image; imagination; immutable; imperfect; infinite; instance; instinct; inward; kind; knowledge; laws; left; liberty; life; light; like; limited; line; little; living; look; machine; man; manner; matter; mean; men; mere; mind; mistake; moment; motion; mountains; mouth; moves; muscles; natural; nature; nay; necessary; neck; nerves; new; number; objects; occasion; open; order; organs; parts; perfect; perfection; philosophers; place; pleasure; possible; power; present; proper; proportion; purpose; question; rational; rays; real; reason; reasoning; regular; respect; rest; rules; sea; sect; senses; sensible; set; short; shows; simple; single; skill; skin; soft; soul; species; spirits; springs; stars; straight; strength; substance; subtle; sudden; sun; superior; supreme; system; thee; things; thinking; thoughts; time; true; truth; turn; unity; universal; universe; use; variety; want; watch; water; way; willing; winds; wisdom; wonderful; wonders; work; world; years; young cache: 11044.txt plain text: 11044.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 17611 author: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint title: Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition date: None words: 101358 flesch: 73 summary: Now other men have not, from the beginning, knowledge of all things, but they acquire it in the course of time according to their capacity. 2: To Adam, as being the first man, was due a degree of perfection which was not due to other men, as is clear from what is above explained. keywords: able; account; action; active; acts; adam; agent; angelic; angels; animals; answer; apostle; art; article; augustine; bad; beginning; birth; bodies; body; cause; certain; change; children; christ; civ; clear; coel; common; concept; contrary; corporeal; corporeal things; corruptible; corruption; creation; creatures; degree; dei; demons; determinate; different; dionysius; disposition; distinction; divine; earth; effect; end; enlightenment; essence; evil; existence; existing; exterior; fact; faith; false; fate; father; female; fire; fitting; flesh; follows; food; force; form; fourth; free; general; generation; gifts; glory; god; good; good angels; goodness; government; grace; greater; gregory; guardianship; hand; head; heat; heavenly; hierarchy; higher; highest; hold; holy; hom; human; human nature; iii; image; imagination; imperfect; inasmuch; individual; inferior; infinite; innocence; innocence man; inquiry; instance; intellect; intellectual; intelligible; kind; knowledge; known; life; light; like; likeness; local; long; lord; love; lowest; male; man; manifest; manner; mastership; matter; means; men; merit; middle; mind; ministry; miracles; mode; movement; moves; multitude; names; natural; natural things; nature; necessary; necessity; need; number; objection; offspring; operation; opinion; order; ordering; outside; paradise; participation; particular; passions; passive; perfect; perfection; persons; philosopher; place; plants; points; possible; potentiality; power; present; primitive; principalities; principle; produce; production; proper; providence; purpose; question; rational; reason; regards; reply obj; rib; righteousness; said; second; semen; seminal; sense; sensible; sensitive; separate; sin; soul; species; speech; spirits; spiritual; state; subject; substance; sun; superior; superior angels; things; time; tree; trinity; true; truth; united; universal; universe; vii; virtues; vision; way; ways; woman; words; work; world; xiv cache: 17611.txt plain text: 17611.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 18168 author: Naville, Ernest title: The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism date: None words: 81248 flesch: 69 summary: And it is not the heart only which is concerned here; without God man remains inexplicable to his own reason. Good God! keywords: able; absolute; account; action; acts; adoration; ages; air; almighty; ancient; animals; answer; antiquity; argument; aspirations; atheism; attempt; attention; attributes; author; basis; beautiful; beauty; beginning; beings; belief; best; better; birth; blind; blood; bodies; body; book; bosom; cases; cause; cellules; centre; century; certain; character; charity; christian; church; circumstances; civilization; clear; common; complete; conception; conclusion; condition; conscience; consciousness; consequences; contemporary; contempt; contradiction; contrary; convictions; country; course; creation; creator; creature; cry; current; danger; darkness; darwin; day; days; death; deism; depths; des; descartes; design; desires; destinies; destiny; development; dieu; different; dignity; direct; discoveries; discovery; discussion; distinct; distinction; diversity; divine; doctrine; dogma; domain; doubt; duty; earth; easy; edition; effect; efforts; elements; elevated; empire; encounter; end; ends; england; english; epoch; error; essence; eternal; eternity; europe; evil; example; exercise; existence; experience; explanation; eyes; fact; faculty; faith; fall; false; famous; father; fear; feeling; fellow; following; force; form; foundation; france; free; french; future; general; generous; geneva; genius; gentlemen; germany; gloomy; glory; god; gods; good; goodness; gospel; grand; great; ground; hand; happiness; happy; hard; harmony; head; heart; heaven; heavenly; hegel; higher; highest; historical; history; hold; holiness; holy; honor; hope; hour; human; human mind; human nature; humanity; hypothesis; idea; idols; illusion; imagination; immortality; importance; impossible; indifference; individual; infinite; influence; intellectual; intelligence; interests; jesus; joy; judge; justice; knowledge; labor; language; large; law; laws; lead; lecture; length; les; liberty; life; light; like; limit; literary; little; living; lofty; logic; long; longer; look; lord; lost; love; man; manifestation; manner; march; marvellous; materialism; matter; meaning; means; measure; men; mere; metaphysical; midst; mind; mistaken; modern; moment; monkey; moral; morality; motion; movement; nations; natural; naturalists; nature; necessary; necessity; need; negation; new; newton; noble; nothingness; number; object; observation; old; open; opinion; order; ordinary; organization; organized; origin; paganism; page; pain; pantheism; paris; particular; passing; passions; past; people; perfection; personal; phenomena; philosophers; philosophical; philosophy; place; plato; pleasure; point; political; poor; position; positive; possess; power; powerful; prayer; prejudice; presence; present; primitive; principal; principle; problem; produce; professor; profound; progress; proof; proper; property; proportion; protests; providence; public; pure; question; rays; real; realities; reality; reason; reasoning; regard; relations; religion; religious; remains; remark; renders; reply; representatives; respect; result; revue; rights; rise; road; roman; rome; rousseau; rule; run; sacred; sacrifices; saint; savants; scepticism; school; science; scientific; search; secret; self; sense; sentiment; series; sets; simple; single; sirs; slavery; slow; small; social; society; socrates; soil; solid; song; sort; soul; source; sovereign; sovereign god; space; special; species; spectacle; speech; spiritual; spring; stars; state; strange; strength; strong; struggle; studies; study; subject; sublime; success; sufficient; sun; superior; support; supposed; supreme; supreme god; sur; system; taking; taste; temples; terms; testimony; theory; things; thinking; thought; thousands; time; toleration; traces; tradition; translation; triumph; true; true god; truth; turn; understanding; unity; universal; universe; vain; value; veil; victory; view; virtue; visible; voice; voltaire; way; wisdom; wish; words; work; world; worship; worth; writer; writings; years; young; youth cache: 18168.txt plain text: 18168.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 2003 author: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples) title: Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics date: None words: 9584 flesch: 81 summary: When the pale skies shiver, Seeing night is done, Past the ocean-river, Lightly thou dost run, To look for pleasant, sleepy lands, That never fear the sun. Prologue As of old Phoenician men, to the Tin Isles sailing Straight against the sunset and the edges of the earth, Chaunted loud above the storm and the strange sea's wailing, Legends of their people and the land that gave them birth-- Sang aloud to Baal-Peor, sang unto the horned maiden, Sang how they should come again with the Brethon treasure laden, Sang of all the pride and glory of their hardy enterprise, How they found the outer islands, where the unknown stars arise; And the rowers down below, rowing hard as they could row, Toiling at the stroke and feather through the wet and weary weather, Even they forgot their burden in the measure of a song, And the merchants and the masters and the bondsmen all together, Dreaming of the wondrous islands, brought the gallant ship along; keywords: ancient; beast; beauty; birth; bright; castle; cold; country; curse; dark; dawn; day; dead; dear; death; deep; delight; desire; dim; divine; dreams; dust; earth; endless; ere; evil; eyes; faerie; fair; far; fear; feet; flowery; forest; garden; glory; god; good; great; green; grey; hand; happy; hate; head; heart; hidden; high; home; hope; hour; house; land; lewis; life; little; live; lonely; long; lord; love; loveliness; magic; man; men; mighty; moon; morning; nature; new; night; ocean; old; open; pain; pale; pass; people; place; play; power; real; red; sea; seas; silent; singing; sky; soft; song; sound; spirit; stars; stone; strange; strong; summer; sun; sweet; thee; things; thou; thought; tree; wandering; waste; way; ways; wet; white; wind; wood; world; years cache: 2003.txt plain text: 2003.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 2513 author: Butler, Samuel title: God the Known and God the Unknown date: None words: 16539 flesch: 56 summary: I will then indicate the Living and Personal God about whose existence and about many of whose attributes there is no room for question; I will show that man has been so far made in the likeness of this Person or God, that He possesses all its essential characteristics, and that it is this God who has called man and all other living forms, whether animals or plants, into existence, so that our bodies are the temples of His spirit; that it is this which sustains them in their life and growth, who is one with them, living, moving, and having His being in them; in whom, also, they live and move, they in Him and He in them; He being not a Trinity in Unity only, but an Infinity in Unity, and a Unity in an Infinity; eternal in time past, for so much time at least that our minds can come no nearer to eternity than this; eternal for the future as long as the universe shall exist; ever changing, yet the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever. GOD THE KNOWN AND GOD THE UNKNOWN By Samuel Butler Prefatory Note GOD the Known and God the Unknown first appeared in the form of a series of articles which were published in The Examiner in May, June, and July, 1879. keywords: animal; better; blood; bodies; body; buds; cells; certain; chair; change; chapter; common; conception; day; dead; deity; die; different; earth; end; energy; eternal; evolution; existence; expression; fact; flesh; forms; god; greater; ground; growth; habit; hand; hold; hope; human; ideas; impossible; individual; invisible; leaves; life; like; little; lives; living; long; longer; man; manner; matter; meaning; men; minds; modification; nature; necessary; new; organic; organism; orthodox; pantheism; parts; past; people; perfect; person; personal; personality; place; plants; power; present; question; reasonable; sense; single; small; soul; space; spirit; spite; substance; surroundings; theologian; things; thoughts; time; tree; true; truth; unity; unknown; use; vast; vegetable; view; way; words; world; years cache: 2513.txt plain text: 2513.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 30154 author: Vaknin, Samuel title: Essays on God and Freud date: None words: 19 flesch: 89 summary: Copyright 2002, 2009 by Lidija Rangelovska Please see the Rich Text File (RTF) for the content of this eBook. keywords: copyright cache: 30154.txt plain text: 30154.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 42683 author: Curtis, T. D. (Thomas Day) title: God Outlines of the new theology, based on facts, science, nature, reason, intuition, revelation and common sense date: None words: 3760 flesch: 71 summary: As music's octaves rise, progressive will Ascends from sphere to sphere, thro' endless range; The higher motion makes each sphere to thrill With higher Life and glories new and strange, Perfection nearing through an everlasting change. Mankind are Gods in embryo, and Gods Are wedded Pairs advanced to higher life; All are one substance, and the seeming odds Are in conditions; keywords: ages; author; conditions; destiny; earth; earthly; elements; end; eyes; force; forms; future; god; great; higher; human; infinite; law; life; light; love; man; mind; nature; new; pair; power; principles; progress; source; sphere; spirit; sun; suns; theology; things; thoughts; true; unfolding; union; vast; wisdom cache: 42683.txt plain text: 42683.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 59651 author: Hartmann, Jacob title: The Creation of God date: None words: 124367 flesch: 68 summary: Josephus describes the condition of affairs as follows: For whereas the Egyptians were formerly addicted to different customs, and despised one another's sacred and accustomed rites, and were very angry one with another on that account, Abraham conferred with each of them, and confuting the reasoning they made use of, every one for their own practices, he demonstrated that such reasoning was vain and void of truth; whereupon he was admired by them in those conferences, as a very wise man and of great sagacity when he discoursed on any subject he undertook; and this not only in understanding it, but in persuading other men also to assent to him. As to his other qualifications, he had such a full command of his passions, as if he hardly had any such in his soul, and only knew them by their names, as rather perceiving them in other men than himself. keywords: a.d; abraham; absence; absorbed; account; acid; action; active; activity; acts; actual; adam; addition; advanced; affairs; age; ages; air; alcohol; ancient; angel; animal; appearance; aqueous; ark; army; arterial; arteries; artery; atmosphere; atoms; attention; auricle; authority; average; b.c; bad; barbarism; base; battle; bear; beautiful; beginning; beings; belief; beloved; benefit; best; better; bible; birth; blood; bodies; body; bones; book; brain; branch; bread; canal; capable; capacity; capillaries; carbohydrates; carbon; carbonic; care; case; catholic; causes; cells; center; centuries; cerebrum; certain; chaldeans; change; chapter; character; chemical; chest; chief; child; children; christ; christian; church; churches; chyle; circulation; circumstances; city; civilization; 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fable; fabric; fact; faculties; faith; fall; false; family; fashion; father; fats; fear; feelings; feet; female; fibers; fiction; fighting; figure; fire; firmament; flesh; fluid; following; follows; food; force; form; formation; fourth; free; functions; future; garden; gas; gaseous; gases; gastric; general; ghost; glands; globe; glory; god; gods; gold; good; government; grains; gravity; gray; great; greater; greatest; greed; guide; gulf; habits; half; hand; hard; hath; having; head; healthy; hearing; heat; heathen; heaven; hebrews; hell; hepatic; high; higher; highest; history; hold; holy; horses; hours; human; humanity; hydrogen; hæmoglobin; ideas; idols; ignorance; ignorant; iii; images; imaginary; imagination; immediate; immense; important; impressions; improved; inches; increase; individual; inferior; infinite; influence; inorganic; inspired; intellectual; intelligence; interest; internal; intestines; iron; isaac; isaiah; israel; jacob; jehova; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; judah; 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parents; particle; particular; parts; pass; passing; passions; past; paul; peculiar; people; perfect; period; persia; persons; phenomena; philosophy; phosphorus; physical; pious; place; plain; planet; planetary; plants; play; pleasure; point; political; poor; portal; portion; possible; power; powerful; prayer; presence; present; pressure; pretty; priest; priestly; primary; primitive; principal; principles; process; produce; production; products; progress; proof; proper; property; prophets; proportion; proteids; protoplasm; psalm; public; pulmonary; pure; purposes; qualities; quality; quantity; question; race; rapid; reach; ready; reason; reasoning; region; reign; relation; religion; religious; remains; remarkable; respiration; respiratory; result; return; right; rise; rivers; rocks; root; round; rules; sacred; saints; saliva; salts; salvation; samuel; satisfaction; saturn; saul; science; scientific; scripture; sea; second; secretion; self; selfishness; sense; series; set; shells; short; similar; simple; sin; single; sins; size; skill; skin; slightest; small; smaller; snow; sodium; solar; solid; solomon; sons; soul; sounds; source; space; special; species; specific; spinal; spirit; spiritual; square; starch; stars; state; statements; stomach; strata; stream; strength; strong; structure; struggle; subject; substances; success; sufficient; sugar; sulphur; sun; superior; supernatural; superstition; supplies; supply; support; surface; surroundings; susceptible; system; taste; teaching; temperature; temple; terrestrial; terrestrial god; testament; theologians; theological; thickness; things; thou; thought; thousands; time; tissues; tongue; total; training; tree; tribes; true; truth; understanding; upper; urine; use; vapor; variety; vast; vegetable; vegetation; veins; venous; ventricle; verse; vessels; viii; virgin; visionary; visions; vital; viz; voice; voluntary; walls; wants; war; water; way; wealth; weight; white; wickedness; wife; wings; wisdom; wise; woman; wonderful; words; work; working; world; worship; writings; wrong; years; yield; young cache: 59651.txt plain text: 59651.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 7786 author: Clayton, Louisa title: The One Great Reality date: None words: 36170 flesch: 89 summary: We have the same assurance when the Holy Ghost says in St. Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. keywords: able; abraham; address; answer; beginning; bible; blood; body; book; broken; chapter; child; children; christ; christian; church; close; confidence; cor; cross; cry; day; dead; dear; death; earth; eph; eternal; everlasting; experience; eyes; face; faith; far; father; footnote; friend; glorious; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; great; hands; hath; heart; heaven; holy; home; iii; illustration; isa; jacob; jesus; john; joy; king; kingdom; known; life; light; link; little; living; long; look; lord; lost; love; man; matt; means; message; moment; mother; near; need; new; old; open; peace; people; perfect; personal; poor; power; prayer; precious; presence; question; real; reality; repentance; rev; rom; saviour; simple; sin; sinner; sins; son; soul; speaking; spirit; spiritual; sure; testimony; thee; things; thou; thought; throne; thy; time; touch; true; trust; verse; viii; voice; way; woman; wonderful; word; work; years cache: 7786.txt plain text: 7786.txt