recovery of the soul

"One must not underestimate the powers of recovery of the soul under grace."



"The human soul is vast spiritual (nonphysical) landscape, with resources and relationships that exceed human comprehension; and it also exists within an infinite environment of which, at our best, we have little knowledge."


- D. Willard.

right now

"there was never any more inception than there is now."

- w. whitman - song of myself, in leaves of grass

when to say when

"When humans act like animals, the become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.

Ignorance of when to stop is a modern epidemic; it is the basis of "industrial growth" and "economic progress."

-Wendell Berry in Getting Along With Nature - from his compiled essays called "Home Economics"

no little people

"On any fair interpretation of history, the way of Christ in God's Kingdom has, at least, not been tried as a general way of managing human affairs, The personnel for such an undertaking has been lacking. Here again we must give Chesterton his due. Christianity has not only been "found difficult and left untried," it has rarely been closely enough approached by people even to be found difficult.

There was a "fullness of time" at which Christ could come in the flesh, and there is likewise a fullness of time for his people to stand forth with the concrete style of existence for which the world has hungered in its thoughtful moments and praised through its poets and prophets. As a response to this world's problems, the gospel of the Kingdom will never make sense except as it is incarnated--we say "fleshed out"--in ordinary human beings in all ordinary conditions of human life. But it will make sense when janitors and storekeepers, carpenters and secretaries, businessmen and university professors, bankers and government officials brim with the degree of holiness and power formerly thought appropriate only to apostles and martyrs."
- d. willard