 | Edna Lyall - 1888 - 480 pages
...asked to hear this one. Charles Osmond repeated it, and, because he loved it, rendered it very well. Speak to Him thou, for He hears and Spirit with Spirit...meet, Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than handa and feet. It leads us to no vague impersonal Force, but to the Spirit by whom and in whom we... | |
 | Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton - Anglican Communion - 1888 - 232 pages
...rolls through all things." Tennyson, in his little fragment called " The Higher Pantheism," writes : " Speak to Him thou for He hears, And spirit with spirit can meet ; Closer is He than breathing, Nearer than hands and feet." And his lines breathe much the same spirit as those words in the thirtieth... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - Philosophy, Modern - 1888 - 684 pages
...that now speaks in your conscience. It is the God in you , which strives for communication with God. ' Speak to him thou, for he hears, and spirit with spirit can meet ; Closer ia he than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.' ' Not as to the sensual ear, nor necessarily... | |
 | Bernard Bosanquet - Jewish learning and scholarship - 1889 - 220 pages
...not " a ghost," but " mind." t See Tennyson's " Higher Pantheism," especially the fine lines: — " Speak to Him thou, for He hears, and Spirit with spirit...He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." that intelligence can for us find its full expression. The notion of a spiritual body other than and... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1104 pages
...stars, this weight of body and limb, Are they not sign and symbol of thy division from Him ? . . . Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit...He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. . . . And the ear of man cannot hear, and the "eye of man cannot see ; But if we could see and hear,... | |
 | Religion - 1890 - 1460 pages
...stars, the seas, the hills and the plains, — Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns ? Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit...He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." Again in " In Memoriam " he has furnished some of the most exquisite statements of the thought of immanence... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - Theism - 1889 - 122 pages
...Tho' He be not that which He seems? Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams ?" " Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with...He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." The pantheist, if he is to be consistent, and if he is to differ at all from the theist, must repudiate... | |
 | Thomas Davidson - 1889 - 200 pages
...without thee : and thou fulfillest thy doom, Making Him broken gleams, and a stifled splendor and gloom. "Speak to Him thou, for He hears, and Spirit with...He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." The gist of all this is, that the human being, in putting on individuality, in striking his being into... | |
 | Charles Loring Brace - God - 1889 - 364 pages
...weight of body and limb, Are they not signs and symbol of thy division from him ? " Speak to him, then, for he hears, and spirit with spirit can meet : Closer...he than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. " And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot see ; But if we could see and hear this... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1889 - 326 pages
...the description of a personal intercourse between the divine and the human : — Speak to Him, thon, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet, —...He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. Of Enoch Arden in the dreadful loneliness of that rich island where he was cast away it is said that... | |
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Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. 
