 I confess," the author goes on to say, " that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not in part depend on the personal response which any one of us may make to the religious appeal. God himself, in short, may draw vital strength...  The Dial - 第 366 頁由 編輯 - 1896完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1923 - 574 頁
...defended his conception of God as supplying meaning and motive to human existence — a God who draws "vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity". "For my own part", he continues, "I do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything... | |
 | William James - 1896 - 360 頁
...Once more it is a case of maybe ; and once more maybes are the essence of the situation. I confess that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible...which any one of us may make to the religious appeal. i God himself, in short, may draw vital I strength and increase of very being from our fidelity .y... | |
 | Volney Streamer - 1897 - 248 頁
...but a part we see, and not the whole. ALEXANDER POPE Essay on Man IS LIFE WORTH LIVING ? I CONFESS that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible...part depend on the personal response which any one of ns may make to the religious appeal. God, himself, in short, may draw vital strength and increase of... | |
 | 1917 - 714 頁
...wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are indeed to redeem. . . . God himself, in short, may draw vital strength and...For my own part, I do not know what the sweat and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this.' * Hence he offers us as a philosophical... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1902 - 318 頁
...essence of the Spirit's own eternal joy.' And Professor James, writing in much the same spirit, says : ' God himself, in short, may draw vital strength and...of very being from our fidelity. For my own part, 1 do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of... | |
 | Savilla Alice Elkus - 1907 - 170 頁
...unseen world similarly verify itself ? Who knows 1 ' ' James gives his answer to this question : confess that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible...strength and increase of very being from our fidelity. ' '2 J But how are we to understand this answer of James ? In the first place, it is not clear how... | |
 | William Ralph Boyce Gibson - 1909 - 280 頁
...suggestion brought forward that the very existence of the invisible world which our faith demands may in part depend on the personal response which any one of us may make to the religious appeal. We too may be needed to redeem the present world and create the next. This is the ' unstiffening '... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1909 - 682 頁
...noble in man to cooperation. Not being able to see why the very existence of an invisible world may not depend on the personal response which any one of us may make to the religious appeal; not knowing what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, unless they mean that God himself... | |
 | Vernon Lee - 1912 - 284 頁
...this mysterious pattern of words, Father Tyrrell more than once reminds us that 1 W. James : " Ood himself, in short, may draw vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity." Professor James did not see that belief in such a God would be a comfort only if God were not the Creator,... | |
 | James Henry Snowden - 1916 - 418 頁
...worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view. ... I confess that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible...in short, may draw vital strength and increase of being from our fidelity. For my own part, I do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this... | |
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