 | Theodore Parker - Unitarianism - 1856 - 472 pages
...he trod, and is dearest to the best of men, most true to what is truest in them, cannot pass away. Let men improve never so far in civilization, or soar never so high on the wings of Religion and Loye, they can never outgo the flight of Truth and Christianity. It will always be above them. It is... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Unitarianism - 1856 - 412 pages
...he trod, and is dearest to the best of men, most true to what is truest in them, cannot pass away. Let men improve never so far in civilization, or soar never so higl^on the wings of Religion and Love, they can never outgo the flight of Truth and Christianity.... | |
 | Christianity - 1864 - 626 pages
...trod, and is dearest to the best of men, most true to what is truest in them, — cannot pass away. Let men improve never so far in civilization, or soar...Christianity. It will always be above them. It is as if we wore to fly towards a Star, which becomes larger and more bright the nearer wo approach, till we enter... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1864 - 638 pages
...trod, and is dearest to the best of men, most true to what is truest in them, — cannot pass away. Let men improve never so far in civilization, or soar...wings of Religion and Love, they can never outgo the night of Truth and Christianity. It will always be above them. It is as if we wore to fly towards a... | |
 | Bible - 1865 - 736 pages
...thousands of years, so much of divinity was in him. His words solve the questions of this present age.2 Let men improve never so far in civilization, or soar...on the wings of religion and love, they can never 1 Discourse of Religion, p. 296 seq. * Parker's Miscellaneous Writings, p. 175. outgo the flight of... | |
 | Bible - 1865 - 734 pages
...thousands of years, so much of divinity was in him. His words solve the questions of this present age.2 Let men improve never so far in civilization, or soar...on the wings of religion and love, they can never 1 Discourse of Religion, p. 296 scq. 1 Parker's Miscellaneous Writings, p. 175. outgo the flight of... | |
 | Dean Grodzins - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 664 pages
...in words that recall those of his opening, that no matter how high men soar on the wings of wisdom, religion, and love, "they can never outgo the flight of truth and Christianity."215 Parker exhorts his listeners to let the Transient pass away and urges Shackford to... | |
 | George Hochfield - Literary Collections - 2004 - 438 pages
...trod, and is dearest to the best of men, most true to what is truest in them — cannot pass away. Let men improve never so far in civilization, or soar...will always be above them. It is as if we were to fly toward a star which becomes larger and more bright the nearer we approach, till we enter and are absorbed... | |
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Jesus saw on the mount of his vision, and lived out in the lowly life of a Galilean peasant; which transforms his cross into an emblem of all that is holiest on earth ; which makes sacred the ground he trod, and is dearest to the best of men, most true... 