George Müller (1805–1898) German-English clergyman
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Third Part.
Third Part of Narrative
“Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.”
— Henry David Thoreau, book Walking
Walking (June 1862)
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Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) German canon regular
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 545.
“Once, I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les coeurs, où tous les vins coulaient. <br class="br"> Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873)
“What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 274
“In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul.”
Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-born American writer
Foreword to The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (1987)
General sources
Context: In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.
“The gods don't hand out all their gifts at once,
not build and brains and flowing speech to all.”
VIII. 167–168 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“But, in admitting this, we have probably found the open channel.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
The Value of Science (1955)
Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007) Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
Anatol Rapoport (1969) in: Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientist. p. 139
1960s
“As man now is, God once was:
As God now is, man may be.”
Lorenzo Snow (1814–1901) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Nature of God (see also: God in Mormonism)
http://lds.org/ensign/1982/02/i-have-a-question/i-have-a-question?lang=eng
Is President Lorenzo Snow’s oft-repeated statement—“As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be”—accepted as official doctrine by the Church?
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Lund, Gerald N.
February
1982
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