Thursday, October 23, 2008

.:Light:.

Truly the light is sweet, And it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun
- From the book of Ecclesiastes chapter 11 verse 7

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them: the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart, to the man himself, in the process of life-effort. According as the new creation, that of reality, advances in him, the man becomes able to understand the words, the symbols, the parables of the Lord. For life, that is, action, is alone the human condition into which the light of the Living can penetrate; life alone can assimilate life, can change food into growth.

- From Unspoken Sermons by George Macdonald

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