5/21/2023 0 Comments The songs of distant earth bookThere was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation. There was something that He hid from all men when He went up a mountain to pray. I say it with reverence there was in that shattering personality a thread that must be called shyness. He flung furniture down the front steps of the Temple, and asked men how they expected to escape the damnation of Hell. Solemn supermen and imperial diplomatists are proud of restraining their anger. He never concealed His tears He showed them plainly on His open face at any daily sight, such as the far sight of His native city. The Stoics, ancient and modern, were proud of concealing their tears. The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels towers in this respect, as in every other, above all the thinkers who ever thought themselves tall. “And as I close this chaotic volume I open again the strange small book from which all Christianity came and I am again haunted by a kind of confirmation.
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