Reflections--"The Spiritual", 1920-1928

File — Box: 37-40, Volume: 9

Identifier: VII

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

"I have determined to devote this book to the spiritual." (page 6)
"And we read that the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, temperance, faith, life etc. In fact its fruits are all the best things those which bring happiness." (page 8)
"We look before and after, and pine for what is not." (page 12)
"Here is suggested one great defect in human nature. We work under stress. We dont do more than we are obliged to do. We find weeds to save our crops but we do not fight them to the finish and if some one would give us a restricted tract without a weed in it we would in some way let in a few little seeds and soon it would be overrun with weeds." (page 26)
"The intellectual and spiritual life must be a growth from what is within, watered and nourished by the spiritual forces in the unseen." (page 70)
"I feel that I have some talent. One may overestimate it. Yet all my life I have been down and those that I know are shallow have risen by pure gall." (page 124)
"Sometimes I think that when disease and sickness come, when all the phantoms of life have vanished, death after all is the best friend, a consummation most devoutly to be wished." (page 132)
"How could there be a fond God, to say nothing of a Heavenly Father and such a wicked, apparently hopeless world?" (page 164)

Dates

1920-1928

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

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