No Man Need Stay The Way He

No One Can Get Inner Peace By Pouncing On It, By Vigorously Willing To Have It ... Peace Is A Consciousness Of Springs Too Deep For Earthly Droughts To Dry Up. Peace Is The Gift Not Of Volitional Struggle But Of Spiritual Hospitality.

The Process Has Now Run Full Circle: Preaching Originates In Personal Counseling; Preaching Is Personal Counseling On A Group Basis; Personal Counseling Originates In Preaching. Personal Counseling Imparts To The Preacher A Practical Familiarity With Human Nature Which He Would Not Otherwise Obtain.

The Most Extraordinary Thing About The Oyster Is This. Irritations Set Into His Shell. He Does Not Like Them. But When He Cannot Get Ride Of Them, He Uses The Irritation To Do The Loveliest Thing An Oyster Ever Has A Chance To Do. If There Are Irritations In Our Lives Today, There Is Only One Prescription: Make A Pearl. It May Have To Be A Pearl Of Patience, But Anyhow, Make A Pearl. And It Takes Faith And I Love To Do It.

It Is Cynicism And Fear That Freeze Life; It Is Faith That Thaws It Out, Releases It, Sets It Free.

A Supremely Religious Man Or Woman Is One Who Believes Deeply And Consistently In The Veracity Of His Highest Experiences. He Has His Hours In The Cellar ... But He Believes In The Truth Of The Hours He Spends Upstairs.