The Spiritual Battle, The Loss Of Victory,

The Value Of The Things Is Not In Themselves Autonomously, But That God Made Them, And Thus They Deserve To Be Treated With High Respect. The Tree In The Field Is To Be Treated With Respect. It Is Not To Be Romanticized As The Old Lady Romanticizes Her Cat (that Is, She Reads Human Reactions Into It). This Is Wrong Because It Is Not True. When You Drive The Axe Into The Tree When You Need Firewood, You Are Not Cutting Down A Person; You Are Cutting Down A Tree. But While We Should Not Romanticize The Tree, We Must Realize God Made It And It Deserves Respect Because He Made Is As A Tree.

The Command Is To Love Him, Not Just To Think About Him, Or Do Things For Him. We Are Not To Stop With A Proper Legal Relationship - For Example, To Think Of A Man As Legally Lost, Which He Is, In The Sight Of A Holy God - Without Thinking Of Him As A Person. Saying This, We Can Suddenly See That Much Evangelism Is Not Only Sub-christian, But Subhuman - Legalistic And Impersonal.

How Should An Artist Begin To Do His Work As An Artist? I Would Insist That He Begin His Work As An Artist By Setting Out To Make A Work Of Art.

The Church Is Something Beautiful

In My Reading Of Philosophy, I Saw That There Were Innumerable Problems That Nobody Was Giving Answers For. The Bible, It Struck Me, Dealt With Man's Problems In A Sweeping, All-encompassing Thrust.