Sublime

He is a sorrowful man, but he is not morose.

“Be silent”, he says through gritted teeth. “You are dead. Lie here and do not move until we are gone.”

the hands of a man like Hitler, power is exploited and turned to ends which make for havoc and misery; but this should not cause us to ignore the basic soundness of the theory upon which he operated. A man’s conviction that he is God’s child automatically tends to shift the basis of his relationship with all his fellows. He recognizes at once that

The people loved Thomas because he defended the power of the pastor to drive the people into the time-bending wormhole of salvation,

The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper. The Christian community resembles a Wall Street exchange of works wherein the elite are honored and the ordinary ignored. Love is stifled, freedom shackled, and self-righ

Slowly, I learned that on the tree of silence hangs the fruit of peace.