Whoever will listen will hear the speaking heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to listen, for listening is not today a part of popular religion. We are at the opposite end of the pole from there. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.

Such words as amen, hallelujah, glory and others of like sacred association are repeated endlessly and meaninglessly in the apparent belief that they have in them some strange power for good. This can be no more than high-grade magic. It will pay us to search our own hearts thoroughly to discover just why we use these words.

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.