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| Truth is often found in a book. |
| Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. J.R. Lowell, The Present Crisis * |
| The Holy Scriptures are the source of moral and spiritual light. Yet I consider that I cast no aspersion upon the hallowed page when I say that its radiance is not by itself enough. Light alone is not sufficient. A.W.Tozer; Gems From Tozer; Christian Publications; Camp Hill, PA. |
| Roll on, thou deep and dark-blue Ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin, his control Stops with the shore;... Byron, Childe Harold, IV * |
| Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night! Elizabeth A. Allen; Rock Me to Sleep* |
| Sometimes the discovery of truth requires solitude. |
The following text is a Kierkegaardian quote used in a book by Abraham Joshua Heschel
entitled: A Passion For Truth:
"A Christian (writes Kierkegaard) often feels a need for solitude which
for him is a vital necessity--sometimes like breathing, at other times like
sleeping. The fact that he feels this vital necessity more than other men
is also a sign that he has a deeper nature. Generally the need for solitude
is a sign there is spirit in a man after all, and it is a measure for what
spirit there is. The purely twaddling inhuman and too-human men are to
such a degree without feeling for the need of solitude that like a certain
species of social birds (the so-called love birds) they promptly die if for an
instant they have to be alone. As the little child must be put to sleep by a
lullaby, so these men need the tranquillizing hum of society before they
are able to eat, drink, sleep, pray, fall in love, etc. But in ancient times as
well as in the Middle Ages people were aware of the need of solitude and
had repect for what it signifies. In the constant sociability of our age
people shudder at solitude to such a degree that they know no other use
to put it but (oh, admirable epigram!) as a punishment for criminals. But
after all it is a fact that in our age it is a crime to have spirit, so it is
natural that such people, the lovers of solitude, are included in the same
class with criminals."
Heschel took this quote from the following work of Soren Kierkegaard:
The Sickness unto Death, translated by Walter Lowrie (Princeton, N.J.,
1941); Anchor Edition edition (Garden City, N.Y., 1954, pp. 197f.
entitled: A Passion For Truth:
"A Christian (writes Kierkegaard) often feels a need for solitude which
for him is a vital necessity--sometimes like breathing, at other times like
sleeping. The fact that he feels this vital necessity more than other men
is also a sign that he has a deeper nature. Generally the need for solitude
is a sign there is spirit in a man after all, and it is a measure for what
spirit there is. The purely twaddling inhuman and too-human men are to
such a degree without feeling for the need of solitude that like a certain
species of social birds (the so-called love birds) they promptly die if for an
instant they have to be alone. As the little child must be put to sleep by a
lullaby, so these men need the tranquillizing hum of society before they
are able to eat, drink, sleep, pray, fall in love, etc. But in ancient times as
well as in the Middle Ages people were aware of the need of solitude and
had repect for what it signifies. In the constant sociability of our age
people shudder at solitude to such a degree that they know no other use
to put it but (oh, admirable epigram!) as a punishment for criminals. But
after all it is a fact that in our age it is a crime to have spirit, so it is
natural that such people, the lovers of solitude, are included in the same
class with criminals."
Heschel took this quote from the following work of Soren Kierkegaard:
The Sickness unto Death, translated by Walter Lowrie (Princeton, N.J.,
1941); Anchor Edition edition (Garden City, N.Y., 1954, pp. 197f.
Music from the album "SELAH" Greatest Hymns
"Be Thou My Vision"
"Be Thou My Vision"
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