George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Star Of My Heart (1913)
Context: Our Christmas shall be rare at dawning there,
And each shall find his brother fair,
Like a little child within:
All hearts of the earth shall find new birth
And wake, no more to sin.
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) British hymn writer and theologian
The Pilgrims of the Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Nathaniel Hawthorne book Young Goodman Brown
"Young Goodman Brown" (1835) from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
"The Illusion of Rewards", p. 43
Awareness (1992)
Context: Do you know what eternal life is? You think it's everlasting life. But your own theologians will tell you that that is crazy, because everlasting is still within time. It is time perduring forever. Eternal means timeless — no time. The human mind cannot understand that. The human mind can understand time and can deny time. What is timeless is beyond our comprehension. Yet the mystics tell us that eternity is right now. How's that for good news? It is right now. People are so distressed when I tell them to forget their past. They're crazy! Just drop it! When you hear "Repent for your past," realize it's a great religious distraction from waking up. Wake up! That's what repent means. Not "weep for your sins.": Wake up! understand, stop all the crying. Understand! Wake up!
“I wanted to wake up with a new name, a new hair colour, and almost the same heart.”
Carole Morin British writer
Spying on Strange Men (2013)
Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 97
“Meek — as the meek that shall inherit earth,
Pure — as the pure in heart that shall see God.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
Poems (1866), Our Father's Business
Context: This, this is Thou. No idle painter's dream
Of aureoled, imaginary Christ,
Laden with attributes that make not God;
But Jesus, son of Mary; lowly, wise,
Obedient, subject unto parents, mild,
Meek — as the meek that shall inherit earth,
Pure — as the pure in heart that shall see God.
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 27
Context: In my folly, afore this time often I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of sin was not letted: for then, methought, all should have been well. This stirring was much to be forsaken, but nevertheless mourning and sorrow I made therefor, without reason and discretion.
But Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is needful to me, answered by this word and said: It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
“Sin is behovable —; but all shall be well”
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 27