January 9th. With Nature as the symbol of all of harmony and beauty that
is known to man, must we still talk of the supernatural, not as a
convenient word, but as a different order of world, . . . where the Reign
of Mystery supersedes the Reign of Law? Natural Law, Introduction, p. 6.
January 10th. The Reign of Law has gradually crept into every department
of Nature, transforming knowledge everywhere into Science. The process
goes on, and Nature slowly appears to us as one great unity, until the
borders of the Spiritual World are reached. Natural Law, Introduction, p.
13.
January 11th. No single fact in Science has ever discredited a fact in
Religion. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 30.
January 12th. I shall never rise to the point of view which wishes to
"raise" faith to knowledge. To me, the way of truth is to come through
the knowledge of my ignorance to the submissiveness of faith, and then,
making that my starting-place, to raise my knowledge into faith. Natural
Law, Introduction, p. 28. Quotation from Beck: Bib. Psychol.
January 13th. If the purification of Religion comes from Science, the
purification of Science, in a deeper sense, shall come from Religion.
Natural Law, Introduction, p. 31.
January 14th. With the demonstration of the naturalness of the
supernatural, scepticism even may come to be regarded as unscientific.
And those who have wrestled long for a few bare truths to ennoble life
and rest their souls in thinking of the future will not be left in doubt.
Natural Law, Introduction, p. 32.
January 15th. The religion of Jesus has probably always suffered more
from those who have misunderstood than from those who have opposed it.
Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 67.
January 16th. It is impossible to believe that the amazing successions of
revelations in the domain of Nature, during the last few centuries, at
which the world has all but grown tired wondering, are to yield nothing
for the higher life. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 32.
January 17th. Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every
man and woman every day has a thousand of them. Greatest Thing in the
World.
January 18th. What is Science but what the Natural World has said to
natural men? What is Revelation but what the Spiritual World has said to
Spiritual men? Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 73.
January 19th. Life depends upon contact with Life. It cannot spring up
out of itself. It cannot develop out of anything that is not Life. There
is no Spontaneous Generation in religion any more than in Nature. Christ
is the source of Life in the Spiritual World; and he that hath the Son
hath Life, and he that hath not the Son, whatever else he may have, hath
not Life. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 74.
January 20th. It is a wonderful thing that here and there in this hard,
uncharitable world, there should still be left a few rare souls who think
no evil. Greatest Thing in the World.
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