The Seminaries Must Be Like

A Charity Which Knows Only How To Give Money Is Not Yet Christian Love. You Will Be Free Of Guilt Only When You Also Give Your Time, Your Energy, And Your Resourcefulness To Help End Such Abuses For Good, And When You Allow Nothing That Lies Hidden In The Storehouse Of Your Christian Religion To Remain Unused Against The Cancer That Is Destroying The Vitality Of Our Society In Such Alarming Ways.

The Holy Scripture Is Like A Diamond: In The Dark It Is Like A Piece Of Glass, But As Soon As The Light Strikes It The Water Begins To Sparkle, And The Scintillation Of Life Greets Us.

There Are Two Kinds Of Beauty; There Is A Beauty Which God Gives At Birth, And Which Withers As A Flower. And There Is A Beauty Which God Grants When By His Grace Men Are Born Again. That Kind Of Beauty Never Vanishes But Blooms Eternally.

The Sovereignty Of The State As The Power That Protects The Individual And That Defines The Mutual Relationships Among The Visible Spheres, Rises High Above Them By Its Right To Command And Compel. But Within These Spheres ... Another Authority Rules, An Authority That Descends Directly From God Apart From The State. This Authority The State Does Not Confer But Acknowledges.

The Seminaries Must Be Like The Churches' Poor Relations, Prolonging Their Existence With Austerity.