“When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely transformed into divine love. For by continual participation in the divine radiance his intellect becomes totally filled with light; and when it has reintegrated its passible aspect, it redirects this aspect towards God, filling it with an incomprehensible and intense longing for Him and with unceasing love, thus drawing it entirely away from worldly things to the divine.” MenLightChristianDesireGrowsDivineAspectFilledLongingIntellectDrawingIntenseOrthodoxTransformedParticipationWorldlyFillingDivine LoveRadianceWorldly ThingsLonging For God Author:Maximus the Confessor
“The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.” MenWorldWayArtDifferentChristianFormUsedDiesIndividualNaturalModernCallingDiedTransformationFacultyIndividualismTransformedConquestNatural WorldPietyRenaissanceOutside WorldGreat ChristianChristian Art Author:Andre Malraux
“The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.” ChristianReligiousToleranceOfficialsEstablishmentTransformedShieldsClausesReligious ToleranceEstablishment Clause Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
“"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace endeavored to make clear the very spirit and essence of the ancient myths, Euhemerus pretended, on the contrary, that "myths were the legendary history of kings and heroes, transformed into gods by the admiration of the nations." It is the latter method which was inferentially followed by Christians when they agreed upon the acceptation of euhemerized patriarchs, and mistook them for men who had really lived.” MenHas BeensChristianLawSpiritNationsMoralTeachClearWiseKingsHeroEssenceMethodAncientMythContraryLatterAdmirationTransformedLegendary Author:H. P. Blavatsky