Sublime

His personal wish, he once said, was to live and teach so that there should be a new conception of God in the world, a change in the very meaning of the word.

One of the oldest of the Negro spirituals deals quite interestingly with this technique. The setting is very dramatic. The slave had often heard his master’s minister talk about heaven, the final abode of the righteous. Naturally the master regarded himself as fitting into the category. On the other hand, the slave knew that he too was going to hea

To love anything is to love its boundaries;

All men are mad but the humorist, who cares for nothing and possesses everything.

Then they were on their feet, singing – ‘Oh the deep deep love of Jesus, vast, unmeasured, boundless, free’ – and Thomas thought of other loves, which had been neither boundless nor free, but much nearer to hand than the love of God.

St. Matthew Passion,’”

One of my favorite church signs that I’ve ever seen says: “Come hear our pastor. He’s not very good, but he’s quick.”