 | James Freeman Clarke - Christian life - 1886 - 476 pages
...text which seems almost to have been forgotten, and that is the passage in John, " He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? " We climb up to the love of God by the love of man. Every pure, generous, unselfish throb of... | |
 | Francis William Newman - Christianity - 1886 - 172 pages
...primary and paramount. John the Elder very nearly alighted on this doctrin, in asking: "If a man love not his brother whom he hath " seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? " Love to God is a chimsera in one who does not yet love virtuous conduct for its own sake.... | |
 | Francis William Newman - Ethics - 1887 - 448 pages
...sanctity in rule, is founded upon man's moral faculties : much more is all rational or worthy religion. " He who loves not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? " The man to whom the words Justice, Mercy, Goodness have no positive and consistent meaning... | |
 | Francis William Newman - Carthage (Extinct city) - 1887 - 446 pages
...sanctity in rule, is founded upon man's moral faculties : much more is all rational or worthy religion. " He who loves not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? " The man to whom the words Justice, Mercy, Goodness have no positive and consistent meaning... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - English literature - 1888 - 312 pages
...which makes all men members one of another. On idle ears has fallen the question : " He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen?" »Nor does the critic seem ever to have appreciated the divine moral : " Inasmuch as ye did... | |
 | Alexander Mackennal - Church work with the sick - 1888 - 170 pages
...and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive the greater damnation." "He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? " The formalist is reminded that the true service of God is personal trust of Him, personal... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - Mysticism - 1888 - 426 pages
...devotion ; for what is true of the principle of love, is true of its degrees — ' He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he ki not seen ?' The strongly ascetic language of Tauler and his brethren their almost Manichean contempt... | |
 | Alexander Viets Griswold Allen - 1889 - 432 pages
...children for parents, the divinest of all analogies, there arises the love toward God. "He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? " The moralists of the last century spoke of a moral sense endowed with a direct insiirht into... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1889 - 476 pages
...sensibilities at this time by our own literature. With what fury would I often exclaim : He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen 1 You, Mr. A, L, M, 0, you who care not for Milton, and value not the dark sublimities which rest... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Antislavery movements - 1891 - 502 pages
...once who said, "By their fruits ye shall know them." The beloved disciple said, " He that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how shall he love God, whom he hath not seen ?" " Infidel loving your brother ! " The writer in the Traveller says : — " We have not unfrequently... | |
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