Literary and Spiritual Excerpts
You would never believe what sport and entertainment your mortal manikins provide daily for the gods. These gods, you know, set aside their sober forenoon hours for composing quarrels and giving ear to prayers. But …
…to Adams the dynamo became a symbol of infinity. As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians …
The religious perception of our time, in its widest and most practical application, is the consciousness that our well-being, both material and spiritual, individual and collective, temporal and eternal, lies in the growth of brotherhood …
Forgiveness is primarily a matter of your mind and will. Love of neighbor is anchored in love of God. Therefore, it is possible to love the unfriendly neighbor on the level of the will. You …
“Adam Lay Ibounden” Anonymous (15th Century) Adam lay ibounden Boudnen in a bond; Foure thousand winter Thowt he not too long. And all wa for an appil, An appil that he took, As clerkes finden …
Had Abraham doubted as he stood on the mountain in Moriah, had he looked about in indecision, if before drawing the knife he had accidentally caught sight of the ram and God had allowed him …
Everyone gladly does whatever he most likes, and likes best those who think as he does; but if God is to dwell among us, we must sometimes yield our own opinion for the sake of …
Man is never driven to moral behavior; in each instance he decides to behave morally. Man does not do so in order to satisfy a moral drive and to have a good conscience; he does …
When Muhammad was forty years old Allah sent him as a prophet of mercy to the people of the visible and of the invisible worlds, and to all mankind. With every prophet whom Allah had …
As the one fire has entered the world And become corresponding form to every form, So the one Inner Soul of all things Is corresponding in form to every form and yet is outside. As …
Every movement of my own natural appetite, even though my nature is good in itself, tends in one way or another to keep alive in me the illusion that is opposed to God’s reality living …
A Christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident. Still less is a Christian martyrdom the effect of a man’s will to become a Saint, as a man by willing …