Quotes Of The Day

A Provocative Line or Two:

But trained men’s minds are spread so thin,
They
let all sorts of darkness in;
Whatever light man finds, they doubt
it;
They love not light, just talk about it.

John Masefield (The Everlasting
Mercy)

From the biography of John Henry
Jowett
“We leave our places of worship, and no deep and
inexpressible wonder sits upon our faces. We can sing these lilting melodies,
and when we go out into the street our faces are one with the faces of those who
have left the theater and the music halls. There is nothing about us to suggest
that we have been looking at anything stupendous and overwhelming. Far back in
my boyhood I remember an old saint telling me that after some services he liked
to make his way home alone, by quiet by-ways, so that the hush of the Almighty
might remain on his awed and prostrate soul. That is the element we are losing,
and its loss is one of the measure of our poverty, and the primary secret of
inefficient life and service.” (This said—give or take—a hundred years ago. How
might the man have expressed himself if he had lived today?)

Hat-tip: Gordon MacDonald.

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