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.
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.
The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
In a sensibly organised society, if you improve productivity, there is room for everybody to benefit.
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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