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should write: “In public prayer we often go beyond our convictions, beyond the honest standpoint of fervent desire. . . . If we cherish the desire honestly and silently and humbly, G...
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should be our only healer, and I believe if we only knew how to ask Him we should need no other.”The remark, casual as it is, indicates that even then she was having difficulty in identifying Quimb...
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God seemed to shield the whole world in their hearts, and they were willing to renounce all for Him. When infidels assailed them, however, the courage of their convictio...
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Patterson in 1862 or for some years afterwards. For Christianity uses the language of immanence as well as of transcendence to describe its God, and the line between theological immanence and psych...
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I’ll earnestly seek for deliverance from Indulgence in sinful mirth: From thoughtlessness, vanity, all that is wrong, With ambition, that bind...
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the evil without encouraging difficulties of greater magnitude, let us hope it will be granted. A feasible as well as rational means of improvement at present is the ele...
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Like Hiram Crafts, she continued to employ some of her earlier methods along with the rudimentary metaphysical practice she was learning. Mrs. Glover had resigned herself to the fact that her early...
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If we seem to catch here a prophetic glimpse of the founder of The Christian Science Monitor, it is only in the most general sort of way. Mrs. Glover was interested in the world around her but she...
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“You must have a feeling of repugnance towards certain patients. How do you overcome it and how can I do the same?” The first question in The Science of Man is: “What is God?” The whole distance be...
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convinced that if one went deep enough one might find in the most private circumstance the common source of every form of slavery.53In a famous passage in Uncle Tom’s Cabin,54 Harriet Beecher Stowe...