A Cry From the Depths
Religion is a cry from
the depths. The noblest natures among men have been religious ones. No soul of
mighty faculties, of sensibilities strong enough to sound the depths, fine enough
to feel the heights, of this world-mystery and grandeur, has been an
indifferent, irreligious soul. They have bowed to the royalty of religious truth,
either by their joyful possession of it or by their cry for it. Only the
surface of our nature can nourish an atheistic plant; when its deeps are
ploughed, the latent seed of faith begins to germinate, and the promise of a
piety vigorous and sinewy as the structure of the oak lifts itself above the
soil.
—
Thomas
Starr King (died March 4,
1864)
Justice Is Deeper
The spirit that has a
sense of justice quick and large, and lives by it in relation to his fellows, and
tries to organize more of it through himself in society, lives deeper than the
man of intellect and infinitely deeper than the man of pleasure. The affections
are richer than money-making and the truth-seeking capacities, and the richest
affections are those which bind us consciously to the Infinite. Every kind of
life is essentially superficial that does not bring the human heart nearer to
the Infinite Presence and Love.
—
Thomas
Starr King (died March 4,
1864)
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| Thomas Starr King, 1824-1864 |
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