“The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.” ChildrenFeelingsWisdomLawFatherLeftUnderstandingBehindsWiseMysteryDivineBecomingDoctorsSacredTemplesPriestsLeft BehindOur FatherMystery Of LifeScribesBecoming Wise Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.” SeemsAgeLawOrderNaturalSecretMysteryMovementEnlightenmentOccultNatural LawHarveyCopernicusAge Of Enlightenment Book:Classics Revisited Source: Classics Revisited
“Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.” WorldHas BeensEyeActionLawForceMysteryModernEqualWindowThirdsReactionsPregnantNewtonGeneralizationAction And ReactionLaws Of Motion Author:Phillips Brooks
“we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.” WorldMayHelpingLawNextMysteryThis WorldInstinctThis LifeCommonplace Book:Deephaven and Other Stories Source: Deephaven and Other Stories
“life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.” LifeLawLife IsHalfAcceptingMysteryLessonsDrivenTragicHeroicAgain And AgainHelplessness Book:Measure of My Days Source: Measure of My Days