7 quotes
The time has passed for “the complacent assumption of an unchanged world.”
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
There is very great need to have the unique aspect of spirit in man and its relation to the divine spirit in the universe freshly interpreted in a world that has become bogged down with material conceptions of life and the world.
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
There is a dearth of genuine philosophy of life and of a convincing interpretation of spiritual reality.
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
Persons are set on fire by someone who is already aflame. It is a trumpet call to high adventure that starts the forward movements away from old forms.
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
I want to make perfectly clear the act that the world is in the fringe, in the penumbra, of a tremendous Revolution, with a big R.
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
The Christian faith of the ages will be tested more severely than in any former Revolution, because it will be confronted with its supreme enemy, a completely economic, materialistic, and mechanistic interpretation of the word and of human life.
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
The point I am trying to make clear is the fact that if we are to see a resurgence of life and power in our beloved Society we must open the way for vital, kindling, inspiring persons to visit, or better still to live in, the communities where there are, or ought to be, meetings.
What Will Get Us Ready (1944)