“Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.”
― The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
― The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
“Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
― A Passage to India
― A Passage to India
“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Faith must precede all effort to understand. Reflection upon revealed truth naturally follows the advent of faith, but faith comes first to the hearing ear, not to the cogitating mind.”
― The Knowledge of the Holy
― The Knowledge of the Holy
“Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.”
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