“Let reason do all that reason can; employ it as far as it will go. But, at the same time, acknowledge it is utterly incapable of giving either faith, hope or love, and, consequently of producing either real virtue of substantial happiness. Expect these from a higher source, even for the Father of the spirits of all flesh.” John Wesley

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A Broken Heart


Oscar Wilde


 




…And thus we rust Life’s iron chain
 Degraded and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
 And some men make no moan:
But God’s eternal Laws are kind
 And break the heart of stone.

And every human heart that breaks,
 In prison-cell or yard,
Is as that broken box that gave
 Its treasure to the Lord,
And filled the unclean leper’s house
 With the scent of costliest nard.

Ah! happy those whose hearts can break
 And peace of pardon win!
How else may man make straight his plan
 And cleanse his soul from Sin?
How else but through a broken heart
 May Lord Christ enter in?

“… we cannot choose freedom. There are two states of being: submission to God and goodness or the refusal to submit to anything beyond one’s own will—which refusal automatically enslaves one to the forces of evil. We must ultimately belong either to God or the devil.” M Scott Peck in Glimpses of the Devil
“There is not neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.” C. S. Lewis in Christianity and culture. quoted by Peck in Glimpses of the Devil

“The disease which affects bureaucratic governments, and which they usually die of, is routine. … A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.” Page 364 John Stuart Mill in Representative Government

“No one who does not thoroughly know the modes of action which common experience has sanctioned is capable of judging of the circumstances which require a departure from those ordinary modes of action.” (p. 357) John Stuart Mill in Representative Government

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