The Faith I Was Born

The Heart Of Religion Is Not Altered States But Altered Traits Of Character. For Me, Then, The Test Of A Substance's Religious Worth Or Validity Is Not What Kind Of Far-out Experience It Can Produce, But Is The Life Improved By Its Use? That's The Test. Now, On That Score, If You Remove The "religious Cocoon," The Experiences Don't Seem To Have Much In The Way Of Discernible, Traceable Effects.

Rationalism And Newtonian Science Has Lured Us Into Dark Woods, But A New Metaphysics Can Rescue Us.

If You Are Drilling For Water, It's Better To Drill One 60-foot Well Than 10 6-foot Wells.

When Historians Look Back On Our Century, They May Remember It Most, Not For Space Travel Or The Release Of Nuclear Energy, But As The Time When The Peoples Of The World First Came To Take One Another Seriously.

It Remained For The Twentieth Century To Discover That Locked Within The Atom Is The Energy Of The Sun Itself. For This Energy To Be Released, However, The Atom Must Be Bombarded From Without. So Too, Locked In Every Human Being Is A Store Of Love That Partakes Of The Divine-the Imago Dei-image Of God, It Is Sometimes Called. And It Too Can Be Activated Only Through Bombardment, In Its Case Love's Bombardment