 | 1863 - 220 sider
...that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove ! Thou wilt not leave us in the dust; Thou madest man,...be ; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 6 For Faith and Reverence. We have but faith ; we cannot know ; For knowledge... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 sider
...knows not why ; He thinks he was not made to die ; A.nd thou hast made him : thou art just. VOL. i. 19 Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest...be ; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, oh Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | John Robertson (of Halstead.) - 1863 - 256 sider
...therefore, that the plot should transcend our fond imaginings ? " 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." This should be a sufficient answer to those persons who set up a model theory of the Divine government,... | |
 | 1863 - 1046 sider
...words of the Laureate : — ' Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and pease to bo : They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord, art more than they.' Old Mortality charges me with romancing. I am compelled to return the compliment (or accusation), and... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1864 - 650 sider
...refracted ray of light which has fallen on our own minds. ' 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.' " f • D'Alembert, " Miscellaneous Pieces," p. 109. JH Newman's " Theory of Religious Belief," pp.... | |
 | Frances Power Cobbe - 1864 - 234 sider
...passed away, ruin left to work his will ! Truly, I thought, Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights from Thee, And Thou, oh Lord, art more than they ! Walking up the valley I came to a different scene... | |
 | Goodwyn Barmby - 1865 - 268 sider
...indeed, is God's word, and has an everlasting utterance. " Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be, They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 God, art more than they !" And Truth thus is more lasting than any system. The eternal speech of God... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - 1865 - 734 sider
...we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. 3 Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 268 L- M- MASON. JJTIic Kmanc of tljc fnbfefulc (Goti. T^HOU, Lord ! by... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 sider
...; Thine are these orbs of light and shade , Thou matlest Life in man and brute ; Thou in,ic I. - i Death ; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou...be . They are but broken lights of thee And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 414 sider
...seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, ihou : Our wills are ours, we know not how j Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little...be ; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 
