Friday, August 18, 2006
Lightning out of Heaven
“The Great Man,” said Carlyle, “was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.”:
"The call to faith is a summons to engage the heart, to attune it to resonate in sympathy with principles and values and ideals that we devoutly hope are true and have reasonable, but not certain, grounds for believing to be true. I am convinced that there must be grounds for doubt as well as belief in order to render the choice more truly a choice, and, therefore, the more deliberate and laden with personal vulnerability and investment...
We are, it would seem, always provided with sufficient materials out of which to fashion a life of credible conviction or dismissive denial.... What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. "
"The call to faith is a summons to engage the heart, to attune it to resonate in sympathy with principles and values and ideals that we devoutly hope are true and have reasonable, but not certain, grounds for believing to be true. I am convinced that there must be grounds for doubt as well as belief in order to render the choice more truly a choice, and, therefore, the more deliberate and laden with personal vulnerability and investment...
We are, it would seem, always provided with sufficient materials out of which to fashion a life of credible conviction or dismissive denial.... What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. "
