Sentences with phrase «eternal ulterior»

The Jesus that accompanies this gospel would want to mingle with sinners simply for the sake of mingling with sinners without any eternal ulterior motives.

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They say then that it is more simple to believe at once in the eternal pre-existence of the world, as it is now going on, and may for ever go on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness, than to believe in the eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause, or Creator of the world, a being whom we see not, and know not, of whose form substance and mode or place of existence, or of action no sense informs us, no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend.

Men beset by anxieties are likely to seek mental peace through worship since they discovered in earlier experience that it was a by - product of a devotion that had no ulterior purpose but was directed to the eternal glory.