“It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.” WayChristianUniverseDifferencesAcceptingEmotionalSaintPassionatePracticalsResignationStoicReligious Experience Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.” PeopleIfsWorldLittlesLongEnoughReligionBitsDifferencesChurchCommonHellHolyLittle BitSaintGatesContrastSteelIgnoredHammersImpressiveDespisedSanctityPrevailingConvictsGates Of Hell Author:Bill Vaughan