Traditionally, the Basic Fear of the Two is living in a world without love, but perhaps more accurately, it is the fear that they aren’t loved for who they are but only for what they give others.
“When Jesus promised that He would send the Holy Spirit to the believers as “the Helper,” the text uses the Greek word paraclete, which, as John Sandford has explained, is an ancient warrior’s term. Greek soldiers went to battle in pairs, so when the enemy attacked they could draw together back to back, covering each other’s blind side. Your battle partner was called your paraclete.6”
― Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood
― Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood
“The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all.”
― The Pursuit of God
― The Pursuit of God
“Why are we weighed upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown: Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm; Nor hearken what the inner spirit sings, "There is no joy but calm!" Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things?”
― Six Centuries of English Poetry from Tennyson to Chaucer: Typical Selections from the Great Poets
― Six Centuries of English Poetry from Tennyson to Chaucer: Typical Selections from the Great Poets
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