finds safety and happiness. Natural Law, Death, p.
162.
April 9th. What men deny is not a God. It is the correspondence. The very
confession of the Unknowable is itself the dull recognition of an
Environment beyond themselves, and for which they feel they lack the
correspondence. It is this want that makes their God the Unknown God. And
it is this that makes them DEAD. Natural Law, Death, p. 163.
April 10th. God is not confined to the outermost circle of environment,
He lives and moves and has His being in the whole. Those who only seek
Him in the further zone can only find a part. The Christian who knows not
God in Nature, who does not, that is to say, correspond with the whole
environment, most certainly is partially dead. Natural Law, Death, p.
163.
April 11th. After you have been kind, after Love has stolen forth into
the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and
say nothing about it. The Greatest Thing in the World.
April 12th. The absence of the true Light means moral Death. The darkness
of the natural world to the intellect is not all. What history testifies
to is, first the partial, and then the total eclipse of virtue that
always follows the abandonment of belief in a personal God. Natural Law,
Death, p. 167.
April 13th. The only greatness is unselfish love. . . . There is a great
difference between TRYING TO PLEASE and GIVING PLEASURE. The Greatest
Thing in the World.
April 14th. The conception of a God gives an altogether new colour to
worldliness and vice. Worldliness it changes into heathenism, vice into
blasphemy. The carnal mind, the mind which is turned away from God, which
will not correspond with God--this is not moral only but spiritual Death.
And Sin, that which separates from God, which disobeys God, which CAN not
in that state correspond with God--this is hell. Natural Law, Death, p.
169.
April 15th. If sin is estrangement from God, this very estrangement is
Death. It is a want of correspondence. If sin is selfishness, it is
conducted at the expense of life. Its wages are Death--"he that loveth
his life," said Christ, "shall lose it." Natural Law, Death, p. 170.
April 16th. Obviously if the mind turns away from one part of the
environment it will only do so under some temptation to correspond with
another. This temptation, at bottom, can only come from one source--the
love of self. The irreligious man's correspondences are concentrated upon
himself. He w
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