Monday, December 31, 2018
Saturday, December 29, 2018
Book # 88 - The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict by Austin Reed
"But in that day when I shall stand before God, I'll show him my back where the tyrant has printed it with the cats, and will point him to a dark and gloomy dungeon where I've laid my head many a cold night, without a bed or a blanket, and some days not a morsel of bread to eat, and I will point him to the showering bath and tell him of the water that has been showered on my head. I will show him the tyrants that has tortured and tormented me during my confinement within the gloomy walls of a prison. Those who might have done me a heap of good turned out to be my destroyers, and took away all of the good principles and reasons to which I was endowed with, and the high and noble mind which God had given to me have all been destroyed by hard usage and a heavy club. The very prayers which my mother printed upon my lips have all been wash away beneath the waters of a showering bath..."
Monday, December 17, 2018
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Sunday, December 9, 2018
Book #84 - Journey Out
[Such a person] is blinded; he is off the track.
He cannot know nor understand spiritual things.
He is a blind leader of the blind. [It should be
noted that the 'baptism of the Holy Ghost' as
here referred to would only be considered valid
if it is received according to the Oneness
Pentecostal ideal. If one has not spoken in
tongues, he has absolutely no claim to the
indwelling of the Spirit.] The simplest, most
ignorant one with the Holy Ghost is more qualified
than they [ones without the Holy Ghost], no matter
the amount of education they may have received
p 86-87
The other idea was that unless one was baptized in
Jesus' name he, in effect, had not been baptized
properly at all, had not been born again, and his
salvation was in question.59 This second aspect
was exemplified in the demand for re-baptism of
those formerly baptized in the trinitarian formula.
Re-baptisms occurred by the scores.60 Salvation
was now contingent, not upon faith in the person
and work of Christ, but upon a technicality of
wording in the baptismal formula.
p.101
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Monday, November 12, 2018
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Book #81 - The Cry For Myth
The Cry For Myth by Rollo May
Love = A relationship of caring (p.113)
"...in our day of instantaneous communication by electronics...more patients than ever have never experienced anyone who would genuinely listen with only his or her welfare in mind." (p.98)
"The loneliness is one expression of our rootlessness. Many people in our day, separated from tradition and often cast out by society, are alone with no myths to guide them, no unquestioned rites to welcome them into community, no sacraments to initiate them into the holy - and s there is rarely anything holy."
"A world if interpersonal relationship is...characterized by consistency and has within it...persons who will accept ...rejection without withdrawing,...anger without retaliation, and steadily value [you] for [your] own worth." (p.193)
"Lack of care represents original sin, one's incapacity to sense and to communicate with the heart of another..." (p. 135)
"Myths challenge us to confront our destiny, our death, our love, our joy." (p. 196)
"We awake after a sleep of many centuries to find ourselves in a new and irrefutable sense in the myth of humankind. We find ourselves in a new world community; we cannot destroy the parts without destroying the whole. In this bright loveliness we know now that we are truly sisters and brothers, at last in the same family." (p. 302)
"...in our day of instantaneous communication by electronics...more patients than ever have never experienced anyone who would genuinely listen with only his or her welfare in mind." (p.98)
"The loneliness is one expression of our rootlessness. Many people in our day, separated from tradition and often cast out by society, are alone with no myths to guide them, no unquestioned rites to welcome them into community, no sacraments to initiate them into the holy - and s there is rarely anything holy."
"A world if interpersonal relationship is...characterized by consistency and has within it...persons who will accept ...rejection without withdrawing,...anger without retaliation, and steadily value [you] for [your] own worth." (p.193)
"Lack of care represents original sin, one's incapacity to sense and to communicate with the heart of another..." (p. 135)
"Myths challenge us to confront our destiny, our death, our love, our joy." (p. 196)
"We awake after a sleep of many centuries to find ourselves in a new and irrefutable sense in the myth of humankind. We find ourselves in a new world community; we cannot destroy the parts without destroying the whole. In this bright loveliness we know now that we are truly sisters and brothers, at last in the same family." (p. 302)
Sunday, October 21, 2018
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