Sublime

God is continually looking for ordinary people such as John who are willing to let him use them to make a difference

Martin Buber argued that God is found in relationship. We connect with God by connecting deeply to others—and not just humans, but animals and things in nature as well.

His interest was in the principles that unite us, not the doctrines that divide us. Following Jesus’ insistence that the kingdom of Heaven is within you, Emerson sought moral universals, what he called “interior truth.” He insisted, for example, that if the Confucians in China, the stoics of Athens, the noblest Buddhists, and the wisest Christians

Their view was that cosmic truth was so important that every one ought to bear independent testimony.

God is far more interested in what you are than in what you do. We are human beings, not human doings. God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

in Acts 13:1 as an example: “Among the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch of Syria were Barnabas, Simeon (called ‘the black man’),

Christ was the archetypal perfect man.

a master metaphysician named Dr. Trenton Tully, who introduced me to universal law.