We Ask The Leaf, "are You Complete

The Most Extraordinary Thing About The Oyster Is This. Irritations Set Into His Shell. He Does Not Like Them. But When He Cannot Get Ride Of Them, He Uses The Irritation To Do The Loveliest Thing An Oyster Ever Has A Chance To Do. If There Are Irritations In Our Lives Today, There Is Only One Prescription: Make A Pearl. It May Have To Be A Pearl Of Patience, But Anyhow, Make A Pearl. And It Takes Faith And I Love To Do It.

A Good Sermon Is An Engineering Operation By Which A Chasm Is Bridged So That The Spiritual Goods On One Side-the 'unsearchable Riches Of Christ' - Are Actually Transported Into Personal Lives Upon The Other.

I Hate War For Its Consequences, For The Lies It Lives On And Propagates, For The Undying Hatreds It Arouses.

We Ask The Leaf, "are You Complete In Yourself?" And The Leaf Answers, "no, My Life Is In The Branches." We Ask The Branch, And The Branch Answers, "no My Life Is In The Root." We Ask The Root, And It Answers, "no My Life Is In The Trunk And The Branches And The Leaves. Keep The Branches Stripped Of Leaves, And I Shall Die," So It Is With The Great Tree Of Being. Nothing Is Completely And Merely Individual.

In The Foothills Of The Himalayas, One Hears The Prayer: "oh Lord, We Know Not What Is Good For Us. You Know What It Is. For It We Pray."