Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I be...come a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and particle of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because ...I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns awa...y from evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not put a fence around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have bles...sed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down,... Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"God is Love," we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repell...ed; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human ra...ce so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »