Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God’s revelation is given to something called a loving heart.
Interpretation
Truth is accessible to those with an open and loving heart.
This quote suggests that the understanding of truth is not a universal experience; rather, it is selectively revealed to individuals who possess a loving and receptive spirit. It implies that a genuine openness to love and empathy enhances one's ability to comprehend deeper truths and spiritual revelations from God.
In practice
During a sermon, one might reference this quote to emphasize the importance of love in understanding spiritual truths.
Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction with the things given in this world, whereas pain and suffering drive one to seek a more profound happiness beyond the limitations of this world.
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.
Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.
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