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“I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason stands over and above the gospel like a magistrate and judges it on the basis of argument and evidence. The ministerial use of reason occurs when reason submits to and serves the gospel…. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.”

“For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and people that warmed his heart of old?”

People Men World Feels Should Heart Self Past Spirit Belief Emotion Wonder Ghost Tales Wander Former Affected Vague Spooky Old World Lingering Hovering

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories

“Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that the local must be the basis of the general; that there can be a free federation only when there are free communities to federate; that the spirit of the latter is carried into the councils of the former, and a local tyranny may thus become an instrument for general enslavement.”

Source: Anarchism and American Traditions

“At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.”

Men Past Spirit Can Do Path Thousand Fairs Weight Add Former Persistence Progressive Drag Immense Towers No Fear Have No Fear

Author:Maurice Maeterlinck

“Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.”

Kind Spirit Fighting Causes Anger Revenge Former Occasions Latter Thirst Fever Bleeding Fiery Lawsuit Dissipation Fermentation Evacuation

Book:Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

“There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it.”

Wells May Stills Happiness Spirit Sorrow Eternity Awful Former Substance Latter Finite Texture

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of