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The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
He stood up and looked at me even as the seasons might look down upon the field, and He smiled. And He said again: "All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself."
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Once again I say that with death Jesus conquered death, and rose from the grave a spirit and a power.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Master, Master Poet,
Master of our silent desires,
The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart,
But it burns not with your song.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
And their music smote heaven and earth, and a terror struck all living things.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Many indeed are the owls who know no song unlike their own hooting.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
I was dead. I was a woman who had divorced her soul.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
And now let us play our reeds together.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
They honour not the man, the living man,
The first man who opened His eyes and gazed at the sun
With eyelids unquivering.
Nay, they do not know Him, and they would not be like Him.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
The world crucifies them every day,
But only in little ways.
The sky is not shaken,
And the earth travails not with her dead.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
But Master, Sky-heart, Knight of our fairer dream,
You do still tread this day;
Nor bows nor spears shall stay your steps.
You walk through all our arrows.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
I was taken by His voice and His gestures, not by the substance of His speech. He charmed me but never convinced me; for He was too vague, too distant and obscure to reach my mind.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
I sorrowed no more.
Who would sorrow for a sea that is unveiling its face, or for a mountain that laughs in the sun?
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
A sign and a symbol to guide their wayward feet,
But not unto your joy.
Your joy is a hill beyond their vision,
And it does not comfort them.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Master, Master of Light,
Whose eye dwells in the seeking fingers of the blind,
You are still despised and mocked,
A man too weak and infirm to be God,
A God too much man to call forth adoration.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)