There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger than our own, and yet which is most truly our own. For, to be ourselves, we must be more than ourselves. What we call love is, in truth… the losing of our individual selves to […]
How would you be If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? Oh, think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your lips Like man new mad. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
There is an endless Kingdom to be inhabited. John Bunyan (1628 – 1688)
I go before thee to make the crooked places straight. Old Testament
The conscious self is that which remains constant in its pure universality through all particular, changeful experiences. John Caird (1820 – 1898)
It is not necessary to think of revelation as a source of knowledge which is either contrary to reason or above reason… On the contrary, it would not be difficult to show that the true idea of revelation, that which is most honouring to God, is at the same time that which is most ennobling to man — the idea, […]
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
There are not different truths in the world, for truth is one and the same at all times and in every place. Buddhism (circa 500 B.C.E.)
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as fire is of light. Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)
