“Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ...The prophetic soul, Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.” WorldSoulDreamLawScienceHumanityGrowthDevelopmentAccountsPressureWideProphetic Book:Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma Source: Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma
“But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.” IfsKindSoulPrayerDivineConversationCriticismEssenceWideDepartmentInwardCommunion Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
“The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.” PeopleWorldYearsLongHas BeensTwoSoulEndsEarthDiesJesusHeavenWonderHellAlivePlansGenerationsAtheismReturnThousandYears AgoMiracleDisappointmentWideThousand YearsRottenMansionsDeposits Author:Ruth Hurmence Green
“As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.” KnowsSoulValuesCommunityPerfectStepsKnow HowJudgingHigherApproachWideConversionDwellingIntercourse Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe