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SUMMONS TO LIFE, CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN INSIGHTS
Martin Israel
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"Prayer is as necessary for the soul as air is for the body. The fruit of prayer is vision; the action of prayer is love."
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"Growth into the fullness of life is a graduated exploration into the meaning and power of love."
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"In the mad rush for security and peace, there is too often an escape from the person to an outer world of authority, where responsibility may be laid at the door of someone else. Yet there can be no peace that does not come from the depths of our own being, no security that does not arise from the love within, and no knowledge that does not proclaim the unity of the person in the greater community of creation."
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"That we are all members one of another is certain in the experience of the true self. For my identity, though unique, achieves reality only in relationship to the whole body of mankind. Thus the soul is, unlike the outer personality that encloses it in form, never circumscribed or alone. It is in psychic communion with all other souls and in spiritual communion with God."
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"The great discovery that lies in promise for us all is the realisation of our true identity, that within each of us which is authentic."
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"The spiritually alive person is aware….that there is a power behind the cosmic flow which is all-powerful and all-caring."
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"God…comes to us when we are broken, and He mends the personality within us. The gratitude we evince and the depth of understanding with which we are now endowed help us to feel into the sufferings of others. Thus does compassion develop."
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"Faith is implanted in the spirit of man."
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"The free will does not go into a state of restful oblivion and wait for God to do everything….The free will brings the personality under the direction of the receptive soul, so that the inner voice can make its wordless message felt."
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"Interpenetrating and transcending the world of phenomenal life there is an order of being that both sustains life and draws it to its final destination. The order of being of which I speak is all-embracing, having no finite parts, and neither beginning nor end. It embraces every created object."
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"In the incarnation of Christ we see the coincidence of the human and the divine wills, separate yet united. And this is the promise for all mankind as it partakes fully of the divine nature deeply ingrained in it."
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"All creatures live in psychic communion."
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"When the personality is infused by the authenticity of the soul, the will is free and acting under the direct instructions of the Holy Spirit. Then we are indeed participants in God's will."
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"This is man's end – to worship God and to enjoy Him forever."
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"All is one in that ultimate reality which is God."
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"Love makes no demands, neither does it look for results. It is unaware of itself in its concern for the other, and its recompense is helping the beloved to be more fully himself."
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"This is the splendid vision of the mystic, that God is in all His creation, and we, in union with Him, can participate in the transfiguration of matter."
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"This is the deeper significance of the evolutionary process, that the human creature might re-establish communion with the Creator as a fully responsible agent infused with the power of God."
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"Real freedom is far from being a condition in which we are in absolute charge of ourselves according to the personal sefishness we exhibit. It is a state of willed discipline to the highest we know, a knowledge that is innate in the soul, and which, through the gift of faith, is made manifest in our lives."
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"There is one God, and all are embraced in Him and infused in Him."
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"In the spiritual life you are confronted by a psychoanalyst who is your own soul guided by the Holy Spirit. When we are most abject we are also most receptive to divine grace."
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"The growth into the fullness of our own being is a growing into a progressively greater knowledge of the being of God."
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"In or through His Spirit, God makes His immanence, or indwelling nature, known to us."
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"Love is the keystone of the arch that joins the soul to God….in its working lies the meaning and destiny of all created things."
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"Love is not an emotional response or a feeling. It is a state of willed tranquility in which we can absorb the personality of the other individual and give of our very being to him."
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