 | Franckforter - 1854 - 296 Seiten
...alone embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. Thou feemeft human and divine, The higheft, holieft manhood Thou ; Our wills are ours, we know not how, Our wills are ours to make them Thine. O Living Will that (halt endure, When all that feemS fliall fuffer fliock, Rife in the fpiritual Rock,... | |
 | Mary Matilda Howard - 1854 - 292 Seiten
...CONVERSATION. — THE DOCTRINE OF THE FALL AND ITS EFFECTS. Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. In Memoriam. remarks furnished Helen with abundant J- material for thought,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1854 - 226 Seiten
...NEOPLATONISM 80 LECTURE IV. THE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT 130 " OUR little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord, art more than they." Tennyson. PBEPAC E. I SHOULD not have presumed to choose for any lectures... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - 1855 - 376 Seiten
...minds.* But are we therefore to relax in our pursuit of * "Our little systems have their day; They have their day, and cease to be : They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord, art more than they." In Memoriam. truth, or to acquiesce contentedly in error? By no means.... | |
 | 1855 - 622 Seiten
...his title-page in poetry ; does he object to it in prose ? " Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And thou, О Lord, art more than they." God does not vary : but the medium through which each suecessive generation... | |
 | 1855 - 654 Seiten
...and limits of our freedom of will and accountability it is impossible to define or comprehend. " Onr wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine."* Man is a complex being. Every individual has a will, which, so far as he is conscious, is purely disconnected,... | |
 | 1856 - 570 Seiten
...own lyre of harmonious wisdom, continue the strain for us : Our little systems have their day : They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell;... | |
 | 1857 - 608 Seiten
...act of yielding them. In the words of Tennyson, in the hymn with which the " In Memoriam " opens, " Our wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine." This fact was overlooked by our reformer. He won the hate instead of the love of those he sought to... | |
 | John Parry - 1858 - 772 Seiten
...gwirioneddau, fel Duw, yn anamgyffredadwy a thragwyddol. "Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be : They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, О Lord, art more than they." Yr oedd dylanwad Chalmers ar grefydd ei wlad a'i oes, trwy ei bregethau... | |
 | Unitarian pulpit - 1858 - 806 Seiten
...truth in store for us ; — well to remember always, that " Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be : They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord, art more than they ;" — well to remember that God "is more than they," and that our highest... | |
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Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. 
