 | 1882 - 760 sidor
...the sun in the material world. " Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be : They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they." TENNYSON. Since the above was written, a letter has appeared in the Spectator for December 17th, written... | |
 | William Musham Metcalfe - 1882 - 304 sidor
...Theologies, let us never forget Our little systems have their day ; They have their clay and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they. " They are but broken lights of Thee," — let a man bear that upon his mind. Let him hold fast to... | |
 | John Cynddylan Jones - 1882 - 352 sidor
...creed formulated by human wisdom. " Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they." II. The Gospel is compared to "a great sheet LET DOWN FROM HEAVEN." In this we perceive a hint thaf... | |
 | Clara M. Codd - 1988 - 132 sidor
...Tennyson with prophetic vision writes: Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be. They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they. Man is becoming more and more lawconscious. Science has taught us the reign of the immutable physical... | |
 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - 1920 - 504 sidor
...poet has said all that need be said. Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they. Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell ; That mind and soul, according... | |
 | Basil Willey - 1980 - 310 sidor
...The highest, holiest manhood, thou: Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith: we cannot know? Yet even this dissatisfied the fastidious Henry Sidgwick: 'I 1 Aspecti... | |
 | 1982 - 348 sidor
...wills are ours, to make them Thine. Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith: we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from... | |
 | William N. Parker, William Nelson Parker - 1984 - 292 sidor
...Tennyson's verses learned in high school: "Our little systems have their day: They have their day and cease to be. They are but broken lights of Thee: And Thou, O Lord art more than they!" Such lines, supportive of the paradigm mongers can yet be turned against them. Scientific revolutions... | |
 | Carol T. Christ - 1986 - 192 sidor
...articulate that end or that event. Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they. (Prologue) Man's limitations keep him from seeing the perfect whole, but the fragmentary nature of... | |
 | Kurt Abraham - 1986 - 148 sidor
...understand the world in which we live. Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. From In Memoriam, by Alfred Lord Tennyson The THREE RAYS OF ASPECT and THREE PRACTICAL KEYNOTES: EMPOWERMENT,... | |
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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 
