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Lecture III. The Theistic Postulate Of The Christian View. · Part 1

“For the invisible things of Him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even His everlasting power and Divinity, that they may be without excuse.”—Paul.

“Let us begin, then, by asking whether all this which they call the universe is left to this guidance of an irrational and random chance, or. on the contrary, as our fathers declared, is ordered and governed by a marvellous intelligence and wisdom. “—Plato.

“It is easy for the fool, especially the learned and scientific fool, to prove that there is no God, but, like the murmuring sea, which heeds not the scream of wandering birds, the soul of humanity murmurs for God, and confutes the erudite folly of the fool by disregarding it.”—J. Service.

“It is in the moments when we are best that we believe in God.”—Renan.

“Atheism is the most irrational form of theology.”—COMTE.

“I leave noticed, during years of self-observation, that it is not in hours of clearness and vigour that this doctrine (Material A theism) commends itself to my mind; that in the presence of stronger and healthier thought it ever dissolves and disappears, as affording no solution of the mystery in which we dwell, and of which we form a part.”—Tyndall.