Catharine vigorously prosecuted the measures her husband had introduced for the promotion of the civilization and enlightenment of her subjects.
The contrast thus became very marked between the semi-barbarism of the provinces and the enlightenment and voluptuousness of the capital.
He sought for clearer knowledge, and was told that the book of the future was sealed and closed, so that no further enlightenment was possible for him.
Grace consists in enlightenment by revelation, in forgiveness of sin as the expression of divine forbearance, and in the strengthening of our moral powers by the incentive of the law and the promise of eternal life.
The unique capacity of the Apostles, resulting from special enlightenment and endowment, makes that which they have done of vital importance for all subsequent development.
Counsel is defined as "an infused habit which makes the soul prompt to receive and act upon the enlightenment offered by the Holy Ghost about the means to be chosen with a view to its own eternal salvation.
Our interest and work for these great Conservation interests we cannot too often reiterate for our own encouragement and inspiration and for the enlightenment of the public.
The ex-President of the United States the next day emphasized the need of further enlightenment of the people regarding Conservation.
It has frequently been my privilege to cooperate with both of them, and I will endeavor to do so now by suggesting a definite plan for spreading enlightenment in a practical manner.
No doubt, this was blind and blundering love, with an alloy of rashness and wish for prominence; but that is better than unloving enlightenment and caution, which is chiefly solicitous about keeping its own ears on.
But the real occasion of it was not the cavils of the scribes, but the faith and need of the man and His friends; while the silencing of unbelief, and the enlightenment of honest doubt, were but collateral benefits.
And there can be no enlightenment under the church.
On the tree of enlightenmentalone can ripen the fruit of righteousness and peace.
In this age of enlightenment the church can not be honest and Orthodox at the same time.
But the great Chinaman completely ignored the so-called next world, and directed all his efforts toward the enlightenment of man concerning the world that now is.
He was not in sympathy with the ring of grafters dominating the county offices, and had hastened to Douglass's enlightenment as soon as he learned of his arrival.
He went over to the bunkhouse to interrogate McVey, but could get noenlightenment from that taciturn individual, who really knew nothing of Douglass's motives.
Having attained enlightenmentand rejected all unnecessary self-mortifications, the Blessed One and his bhikkhus continued for a long time to wear the cast-off rags of cemeteries and dung-heaps.
But new births are required to insure an ascent to the summit of existence, the enlightenment of mind and heart, where the immeasurable light of moral comprehension is gained which is the source of all righteousness.
The Dharma, or The Religion of Enlightenment by Paul Carus.
Let us take our refuge in the truth that is established through the enlightenmentof the Buddha.
Starting from the simplest forms, the mind rises and falls according to deeds, but the aspirations of a Bodhisatta pursue the straight path of wisdom and righteousness, until they reach perfect enlightenment in the Buddha.
This is the mirror of truth which teaches the straightest way to enlightenment which is the common goal of all living creatures.
Seeking true wisdom he did not find it, and he came to the conclusion that mortification would not extinguish desire nor afford enlightenment in ecstatic contemplation.
What a wonderful field for enlightenment and profit lies open to those who seek after Truth.
In the religion of enlightenment the divine attitude tends to belong to the poetry and eloquence of religion rather than to its cognitive intent.
The progress of enlightenment means that more or less all the time, and very profoundly at certain critical times, society must change its habits.
But philosophy, as a critique of science for the sake of faith, should provide the individual religious believer with intellectual enlightenment and gentleness.
Wherefore, as the prophetic enlightenment is more excellent than the imaginary vision, as stated above (Q.
Further, some kind of enlightenment is requisite for prophetic knowledge, as stated above (Q.
Now prophetic knowledge is bestowed by Divine enlightenment and revelation.
We might, however, reply that a person is called a prophet, even while his prophetic enlightenment ceases to be actual, on account of his being deputed by God, according to Jer.
In the present life the enlightenment by the divine ray is not altogether without any veil of phantasms, because according to his present state of life it is unnatural to man not to understand without a phantasm.
Hence they are full of the most valuable materials for the enlightenment of the working class.
These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenmentand progress.
It is not saying too much to aver that the happiness or misery, the enlightenment or ignorance, the civilisation or barbarism of the world, depends in a very high degree upon the exercise of woman's power within her special kingdom of home.
The enlightenment of the people is the true criterion of civilization, and any community that falls below this standard, is barbarous or semi-civilized.
At the end of the century, journalism is the history of the world written day by day, the chief medium of enlightenment for the masses, the universal forum of scholar, sage, and scientist.
Also, when in doubt they get drunk, so I fear I must leave a clearer recognition of polygamous instincts to the slow-growing enlightenment of the mind of man.
But this was fortunately the only flash of enlightenment which penetrated Safronov's musical darkness.
In every grade of enlightenment there are found some who are sufficiently in advance of the rest to be able to help them, and not so far in advance as practically to speak a different language.
