Contents
Contents
1. The experience of God must not be restricted to the few or to the old.
2. ‘They shall be drunk with the beauty of thy house,’ that is, the Universe.
3. Revelation comes in two volumes: Nature and the Bible.
4. The greatness of the human person consists in this: that we are capable of the universe.
5. A mistake about creation results in a mistake about God.
6. Sheer Joy is God’s, and this demands companionship.
7. Joy is the human’s noblest act.
8. Religion is supreme thankfulness or gratitude.
9. The first and primary meaning of salvation is this: To preserve things in the good.
10. The same Spirit who hovered over the waters at the beginning of creation hovers over the mind of the artist at work.
11. We ought to cherish the body [and] celebrate the “wonderful communion” of body and soul.
12. Every truth without exception—and whoever may utter it—is from the Holy Spirit.
13. Revelation has been made to many pagans. … The old pagan virtues were from God.
14. Every being is a name for God; and no being is a name for God.
15. We are United to God as to One Unknown.
16. The greatest accomplishment of the human mind is to know that it does not know who God is.
17. The first requirement, then, for the contemplation of wisdom is that we should take complete possession of our minds before anything else does.
18. It is a great thing to do miracles, but it is a greater thing to live virtuously.
19. The proper objects of the heart are truth and justice.
20. The vision of God is arrived at through justice.
21. Compassion is the fire that Jesus came to set on the earth.
22. Conscience is more to be obeyed than authority imposed from the outside.
23. The prophet’s mind is moved not only to apprehend something, but also to speak or to do something.
24. A trustworthy person is angry at the right people, for the right reasons, expresses it in the appropriate manner and for an appropriate length of time.
25. Playfulness, or Fun, is a Virtue.
26. Sins of the flesh take you toward God; sins of the spirit take you away from God.
27. It pertains to Magnanimity to have a great soul.
28. Angels carry thoughts from prophet to prophet.
29. There is a double Resurrection.
30. God is a Fountain of Total Beauty, the most beautiful and the superbeautiful.
31. Christ is a dew for cooling; rain for making fruitful; a seed for bringing forth the fruit of justice.