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Often appears with: providence and divine governance · justice as a virtue · want of ideas · undiscoverable connections · truthfulness · the nature and attributes of God · sensitive knowledge · schism versus miracles · religious persecution and toleration · reason and the intellect · quieting disputes · prayer and worship
Usually: reverence (4) · detachment (3) · argument (2) · reflection (2) · confronting death (2) · speech or oration (1) · crisis of belief (1) · the fall of the great (1) · the test or trial (1) · curiosity (1)
“Remember that all is but opinion, and all opinion depends of the mind.” Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations · precept
“He that knows anything, knows this, in the first place, that he need not seek long for instances of his ignorance.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 · insight
Locke gives three causes of ignorance: lack of ideas, lack of a discoverable connection between ideas, and failure to trace and examine one’s ideas thoroughly.
Egyptian darkness, were not the candle of the Lord set up by himself in men's minds, which it is impossible for the breath or power of man wholly to extinguish. 21. Fourthly, Of the three real Existences of which we have certain knowledge. FOURTHLY, As to the fourth sort of our knowledge, viz. of the REAL ACTUAL EXISTENCE OF THINGS, we have an intuitive knowledge of OUR OWN EXISTENCE, and a demonstrative knowledge …
Meditations XVI–XVIII argues that everything is naturally changing, that death cannot be an evil because it ends an operation by nature and serves the common good, and that external events are either chance or providence.
men that now are living, be any more. For all things are by nature appointed soon to be changed, turned, and corrupted, that other things might succeed in their room. XVI. Remember that all is but opinion, and all opinion depends of the mind. Take thine opinion away, and then as a ship that hath stricken in within the arms and mouth of the harbour, a present calm; all things safe and steady: a bay, not capable of an…
The text asserts that Allah knows the secrets of heaven and earth and sees all human deeds.
S: Say: Do you apprise Allah of your religion, and Allah knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and Allah is Cognizant of all things. 049.017 Y: They impress on thee as a favour that they have embraced Islam. Say, "Count not your Islam as a favour upon me: Nay, Allah has conferred a favour upon you that He has guided you to the faith, if ye be true and sincere." P: They make it a favour unto thee (M…
He develops a rule: when doctrine is suspicious and miracles occur, miracles are still not contradictory to truth because God will not allow a miracle to lead into error, even under antichrist.
APPENDIX: POLEMICAL FRAGMENTS 856 *Clearness, obscurity.*--There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs. This is a wonderful one, that it has always been preserved in one Church and one visible assembly [of men]. There would be too great clearness, if there were only one opinion in this Church. But in order to recognise what is true, one has only to look at what has always existed; for it is ce…
An “Envoy” prays to God for craft and guidance, asking that the speaker not need human aid to help others, followed by a marching refrain about travel and a “Long Trail.”
sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one -- And. . .the God that you took from a printed book be with you, Tomlinson!” L'ENVOI TO “LIFE'S HANDICAP” My new-cut ashlar takes the light Where crimson-blank the windows flare; By my own work, before the night, Great Overseer I make my prayer. If there be good in that I wrought, Thy hand compelled it, Master, Thine; Where I have failed to meet…