“There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.” IfsMindHappensYoungSpiritPowerfulCreativeProgressIntellectualContactWorldlyEndeavour Author:Will Self
“If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely pure Spirit for those who are worldly and selfish, licentious and cruel, ambitious and animal! But with this great loathing is a great pity. And the pity conquers the loathing, appeases it, satisfies it, is reconciled with it, only as it redeems the sinner from his loathsomeness, lifts him up from his degradation, brings him to truth and purity, to love and righteousness; for only thus is he or can he be brought to God.” IfsSpiritAnimalPureInfiniteSelfishPityConquerLiftsPuritySinnerRighteousnessAmbitiousUnjustWorldlyDegradationLoathingDrunkardsAppease Author:Lyman Abbott
“My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.” I CanSpiritMy OwnFireAliveBibleDiscoveryPressureNotesDepthFasterGloriousDullWorldlyAffinitySpirit Of God Author:Horace Bushnell