If God were small enough to be understood, God wouldn't be big enough to be worshipped.
02699 – God: Big Enough? Small Enough?
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01663 – Deep & Wide
Keep your Christianity wide as well as deep. from Letters
01530 – Where God Has Put Me
But the whole question of course is not "What attracts and would help me?" but "Where can I serve God best?"--and usually the answer to to that is, "Where He has put me." from Letters--------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: But the whole question...
01491 – Leave the Results to God!
It is quite impossible for any of us to measure ourselves and estimate our progress. Our job, having found the path we honestly believe God wishes us to follow, is to go quietly on with it and leave the results to Him! from Letters (February 21,...
01463 – Training & Expanding One’s Soul
It isn’t a bit surprising that you find the Psalms and even your own attempts to develop personal prayer an ‘exercise’ rather than an ‘experience.’ One has to make up one’s mind to submit to training, including the drudgery of training; nor is one’s spiritual state...
00768 – The Whole Life of the Universe is Worship
Worship, in all its grades and kinds, is the response of the creature to the Eternal; nor need we limit this definition to the human sphere. There is a sense in which we may think of the whole life of the Universe, seen and unseen, conscious and unconscious, as an act...
00767 – Transforming the Will
The dedicated will must bit by bit take up, transform, and unify the dedicated body and mind, welding them into a single instrument devoted to the purposes of God.
00730 – Corporate Worship: Embracing All Souls
The corporate worship of the Church is not simply that of an assembly of individuals who believe the same things, and therefore unite in doing the same things. It is real in its own right; an action transcending and embracing all the separate souls taking part in it.
00503 – Spiritual Life/Practical Life Overlap
Most of our conflicts and difficulties come from trying to deal with the spiritual and practical aspects of our life separately instead of realizing them as parts of one whole. If our practical life is centered on our own interests, cluttered up by possessions,...
00318 – Christ’s Birth Has a Purpose for Us
The birth of Christ in our souls is for a purpose beyond ourselves: it is because his manifestation in the world must be through us. Every Christian is, as it were, part of the dust-laden air which shall radiate the glowing epiphany of God, catch and reflect his...