The World And God
“I am giving you these commands that you may love one another. If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world— that is why the world hates you. Remember what I said to you— ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my Message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also. But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my Name, for they do not know him who sent me.”
—John.
God needed human hands with which to minister to His children, therefore He made mothers.
The Mother’s Heart
The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room. When God thought of Mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction and framed it quickly,—so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power and beauty was the conception.
—Henry Ward Beecher.
God’s Teachers
God sends His teachers unto every age,
To every clime, and every race of men,
With revelations fitted to their growth
And shape of mind, nor gives the realm of Truth
Into the selfish rule of one lone race;
Therefore each form of worship that hath swayed
The life of man, and given it to grasp
The master-key of knowledge, reverence,
Enfolds some germs of goodness and of right.
—Anon.