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The Genius Of Man In Our Time Has Gone Into Jet-propulsion, Atom-splitting, Penicillin-curing, Etc. There Is None Over For Works Of Imagination; Of Spiritual Insight Or Mystical Enlightenment. I Asked For Bread And Was Given A Tranquilliser.

People Think Of Faith As Being Something That You Don't Really Believe, A Device In Helping You Believe Simply It. Of Course That Is Quite Wrong. As Pascal Says, Faith Is A Gift Of God. It Is Different From The Proof Of It. It Is The Kind Of Faith God Himself Places In The Heart, Of Which The Proof Is Often The Instrument... He Says Of It, Too, That It Is The Heart Which Is Aware Of God, And Not Reason. That Is What Faith Is: God Perceived By The Heart, Not Be Reason.

Everything Tolstoy Wrote Is Precious, But I Found This Final Statement Of The Truth About Life As He Had Come To Understand It Particularly Beautiful And Moving. 'that Is What I Have Wanted To Say To You, My Brothers. Before I Died.' So He Concludes, Giving One A Vivid Sense Of The Old Man, Pen In Hand And Bent Over The Paper, His Forehead Wrinkled Into A Look Of Puzzlement Very Characteristic Of Him, As Though He Were Perpetually Wondering How Others Could Fail To See What Was To Him So Clear - That The Law Of Love Explained All Mysteries And Invalidated All Other Laws.

Every Happening, Great And Small, Is A Parable Whereby God Speaks To Us, And The Art Of Life Is To Get The Message.

American Women: How They Mortify The Flesh In Order To Make It Appetizing! Their Beauty Is A Vast Industry, Their Enduring Allure A Discipline Which Nuns Or Athletes Might Find Excessive.