Monday, October 26, 2009

gratitude


Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense

of the crowded kindnesses of God

in your daily life

~Alexander Maclaren

Saturday, October 24, 2009

faith



"To study different religions need not imply infidelity to one's own faith, but rather it may be enlarged by seeing how other people have sought for reality and have been enriched by their search."

Knowledge leads to understanding, and understanding to tolerance of people with different viewpoints. In this light I began my exploration, and to reveal my discovery before I talk about the journey, I found that there is, indeed, but one God, one God who is worshiped by thousands of different names, but one God. The most powerfully positive statements about religion have always been nonsectarian and have always led to the same conclusion — worship God in whatever way you may, but worship God.

As the historian Arnold Toynbee said, "The true purpose of a higher religion is to radiate the spiritual counsels and truths that are its essence into as many souls as it can reach, in order that each of these souls may be enabled thereby to fulfill the true end of man. Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever."