After various experiences of victory and discomfiture, the Homoousia of the Son and of the Spirit was at last affirmed and became the watchword of inviolable orthodoxy.
The spiritualexperiences of Boos were similar to those of Luther.
The spiritual life of believers, the work of grace in conversion, growth in holiness, the varying conditions and experiences of the religious life, were favourite themes.
My experiences of foreign lands are everywhere connected with the most pleasing and the most grateful remembrances.
Our deeper experiences need to be mellowed by distance, just as we must back away to a certain focus before we can feel the sentiment of a painting.
These first-hand experiences of a professional burglar were life, and in spite of the fellow's utter villainy and vulgarity (he could almost see his cunning leer through the walls) they had a spice of romance that held him.
The spiritual guides of the Middle Ages were well aware that such experiences often come of disordered nerves and weakened digestion; they believed also that they are sometimes delusions of Satan.
And in modern times two of the sanest of our poets have recorded their experiences in words which may be worth quoting.
But this much I must say, to make my own position clear: I regard these experiences as neither more nor less "supernatural" than other mental phenomena.
These recorded experiences are of great psychological interest; but, as I said in my last Lecture, they do not seem to me to belong to the essence of Mysticism.
The experiences of the mystic have a greater certainty than any external revelations can possess.
From this degradation the mystics of the cloister were happily free; but a morbid element is painfully prominent in the records of many mediæval saints, whose experiences are classified by Ribet.
And so the class which furnished most of the shining lights of Mysticism was that in which these experiences were most common.
Duhamel of medical experiences during the war, than the case of the man who died of a pimple on his nose.
The experiences were always associated with great physical weariness and the sense of the endlessness of the journey.
Their experiences must be exclusive or they have no pleasure in them.
They will not be diminished when, after long jouneyings towards those horizons, after days and nights of crowded experiences in many fields of activity, you return to take a farewell glimpse of America.
Nor, as these experiments must be purely personal, and involve experiences of an entirely novel kind, is it possible to discuss them except with those who have participated in them.
The attraction of this feminine sphere became at last so overpowering, that I determined to visit it in my astral body; and now occurred the first of many most remarkable experiences which were to follow.
I think I know a Rishi who can produce experienceswhich would scatter all their conclusions to the winds, when the whole system which is built upon them would collapse.
The spiritual beauty which falls directly within human experience is that of the human spirit itself; from the soul and its experiences we can rise to an apprehension--analogical and inadequate--of the Beauty of the Infinite Being.
Whilst as we grow older and new experiences become fewer and less impressive, each year at its close seems shorter than its predecessor.
That is, provided we abstract from all comparison of this internal time duration with that of any other current of conscious experiences in the estimating mind.
To hear sweet music, to gaze on the brilliant variety of colours in a gorgeous pageant, to inhale delicious perfumes, to taste savoury dishes--all such experiences gratify the senses.
It is always a comparison of one flow or current of conscious experiences with another.
It is because this complex notion of my personality is an abstraction from my remembered experiences that a perversion of imagination and a rupture of memory can sometimes induce the so-called "illusions or alterations of personality".
And now, before I go further, I should just like you to hear what Brown's experiences during those few minutes were.
Mr Abney, moreover, to whom he confided his experiences at breakfast, was greatly interested and made notes of the matter in what he called 'his book'.
But my cousin, whose experiences I have to tell you now, went to the Golden Lion the first time that he visited Viborg.
It was a day of curious experiences for Stephen: a windy, noisy day, which filled the house and the gardens with a restless impression.
He was interested, not altogether pleasantly, in the situation; but all his questions were unsuccessful in inducing the butler to give any more detailed account of his experiences in the wine-cellar.
Haven't I the pleasure of listening to so many experiences of yours which interest me and give me food for thought?
And every sensation of the soul is a whole world in itself, a whole life; everything in us awakens at one blow, and leaps into life, and experiences the entire thing with us.
This I did, and the impression the moment made must have been very deep, it has remained with me through all the various experiences of my life.
I do not mean those experiencesthat make up our ordinary life, our habits, and our needs.
What experiences and sufferings a young Prussian law-student and volunteer of the Guards must have met with to have become so curt and repelling.
This was just one of the little experiences of which you will have scores in your life; the remembrance of it may help you in others.
In the meantime he was open to any love experiences that came to hand.
From Berlin Bulow, in great indignation and evident low spirits, wrote to me of his dreadful experiences in attempting to organise my concert.
All my social experiences during the seven months I spent in Venice were limited to these few attempts at friendly intercourse, and apart from these my days were planned out with the utmost regularity during the whole time.
After all my previous experiences I was truly astonished and contented, and it was with pleasure I returned the gallant Prince my heartfelt thanks with all the eloquence at my command.
It was an extremely trying period, and the experiences I went through every day only confirmed me in my decision to give up the house.
Their experiences were subsequently written up in the confession magazines.
It has now been definitely established that the experiencesof this cat led to the idea of quick-frozen people, which, in turn, led to the passage of Zeritsky's Law.
Such experiences are rare in practical life, but they have a force and quality which is only next to love in the highest sense between man and woman.
The strength of his heart and mind, the chastening experiences of his life, the philosophical cast of his reason and understanding, gave dignity to his utterances, and impressed Winslow with the nobility of this son of toil.
He was a young man, but the work of his life had matured him early, and the peculiar character of his experiences had thrown him in contact with older men rather than with the things of youth.
Miss Gaston, while apparently young in years, had lived through a period of life and experiences and changes which had stamped her face with a quiet and almost reserved yet strong maturity.
Further, if the mother experiences a great mental or physical shock, it may so upset her health that her child is not properly nourished, its development is arrested, mentally as well as physically, and it is born defective.
Illicit experiences may have been so disillusioning, owing to the disaffecting nature of the consorts, that an attitude of pessimism and misanthropy or misogyny is built up.
He said nothing of these ignominious experiences to Daphne, partly because he never found an opportunity, though more from a fear of being laughed at.
But one expects new experiences in Fairyland--if this really is Fairyland, which I can't quite believe!
To dream of a shrew, foretells that you will have a task to keep some friend in a cheerful frame of mind, and that you will unfit yourself for the experiences of everyday existence.
There are thousands of similar experiences occurring daily in the lives of honest, healthy and sane human beings, that rival the psychic manifestations of Indian Yogism or Hebrew records.
The reader will have to interpret dreams of this character by the influences surrounding him, and by the experiences stored away in his subjective mind.
To dream of a creek, denotes new experiences and short journeys.
One of the most thrilling experiences of the following winter was a blizzard, which overtook us in our wanderings.
When game was to be had and the sun shone, they easily forgot the bitter experiences of the winter before.
Our wanderings from place to place afforded us many pleasant experiences and quite as many hardships and misfortunes.
While I have been confined to a very great extent to my room, I have had a great deal of time to devote to reflection and musing over earlier scenes and missionary experiences of my younger days.
In the three chapters preceding this, I gave the best statement of motives and experiences of my life as it passed in rain and sunshine, with the three noble wives who shared my joys and sorrows.
A few stories were told, then the conversation drifted into personal experiences and present home conditions.
The experiences of the last few days had taught him much.
It was the maddest ride any of them had ever taken, and, as we know, they had been through some thrilling experiences since they had first stood on the railroad station platform at Maguez.
Peace is associated with our permanent relationship to God in Christ, and a relationship of this kind is unalterable by any experiences or circumstances.
The experiences of our fellow-worshippers are always intended to be, and usually will be, of help to our own fuller realisation of our Lord and Master.
A few days and their new-born experiences were severely proved.
He came to do the will of the Father, and in one of the deepest experiences of His life He said: "Not My will, but Thine be done.
When the soul experiences this it is provided not only with the greatest safeguard against danger, but also with the secret of a strong, growing, powerful Christian life.
One of the distinctive qualities of these plays is their objectivity; their detachment from the moods and experiences of the dramatist.
The finer the organisation and the greater the ability, the more difficult and trying the experiences through which the youth passes.
One of these workers, relating the strenuous experiences of these few years, says: "It was hard work and long hours, but still there were some things that made life pleasant.
Although Mr. Moore did not meet with the exciting adventures of some subsequent explorers, he encountered numerous difficulties and novel experiences in his many months of travel through the hinterland of Japan and China.
Tired with my long walk, and the somewhat disturbing experiences I had been through, I fell fast asleep in the easy chair by the open window, through which came sweet wafts from a patch of night-scented stock in the garden outside.
I learnt, from the papers that Mr. Perry had brought home, and from his reports of what he had heard, that the movement had gathered a good deal more way than I should have thought possible from my experiences of the morning.
The account of his experiences in our far West is given in the volume called Roughing It (1871).
From such experiences he gained sufficient knowledge of the ocean and ships to enable him to become the author of some of our best tales of the sea.
Our Old Home, a volume based on his English Note-Books, is a more finished account of his thoughts and experiences in England.
Amid such surroundings he was educated for his life work, and his idealization of these experiences is what entitles him to a sure place in American literature.
Daisy Miller is a brilliant study of the Italian experiences of an American girl of the unconventionally independent type.
As we examine these typical poems, we shall find that all of them appeal to our common experiences or aspirations, and that all are expressed in that simple language which no one need read twice to understand.
The author distinctly says, "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine.
It is instructive to follow the lives of Elizabethans as different as Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Captain John Smith, and John Winthrop, and to note the varied experiences of each.
