"Revealed religion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... during these fifteen months thought and read much on the subject of revealed religion, and had devoted a considerable portion of my time to an examination of the evidences advanced by the advocates of Christianity, which resulted in a reluctant conviction of their utter weakness and inability. No sooner was I aware that so complete a change of opinion ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day
... further I would guard against two possible misconceptions; of one of them I have already spoken, that is, the error so frequent in the past as well as today, that would make of philosophy, however sound, however consonant with the finalities of revealed religion, a substitute in any degree for religion itself. Philosophy is the reaction of the intellect, of man to the stimuli of life, but religion is life and is therefore in many ways a flat contradiction of the concepts of ...
— Towards the Great Peace • Ralph Adams Cram
... of Natural and Revealed Religion: Being an Abridgment of the Sermons, at Boyle's Lecture, with a General Index, 4 Vols. Mess. Bettesworth and Hitch, ...
— The Annual Catalogue: Numb. II. (1738) • Various
... In another point of view, less obvious, and not so frequently noticed, the prevalence in the Scriptures of analogical forms, attaching spiritual doctrines to natural objects and historic facts, has served a good purpose in the evidences and exposition of revealed religion. The more abstract terms of a language are not so distinctly apprehended as the more concrete, and in the course of ages are more liable to change. The habit, universal among the writers of the Scriptures from the most ancient ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot
... sermonising formality, though with indifferent success, 'are, of course, of two kinds; there's the theory of evolution, and there's modern biblical criticism. The more I study these objections, the less able I am to see how they come in conflict with belief in Christianity as a revealed religion.' ...
— Born in Exile • George Gissing
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