Pilgrims in the Region of Faith: Amiel, Tolstoy, Pater, Newman, a Thesis With Illustrations (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Pilgrims in the Region of Faith: Amiel, Tolstoy, Pater, Newman, a Thesis With Illustrations

One proof that an Invincible Mind is dealing with us for our well-being is that every powerful mood which invades or infects an age has already a touch of its own opposite: that what is all the fashion is already nigh unto perishing: that reac tions, relentings, protests do arise out of the unplumbed depths of the soul of man.

We are strangers and pilgrims on the earth. As often as we forget that this is our predestined lot - source at once of our grandeur and gloom, and think to settle down upon some solving word as though it were final-and this either on the right hand (as did N ewman), or on the left (as do many) - forthwith things begin to gather within us and about us which make us nu happy or afraid, and we rise again, because we must, and strike our tents and pursueour further way. It is one mark of the people of God that, like Abraham and Isaac and the children of promise, they dwell in tabernacles, in temporary habitations of the Spirit, in places wherein to rest for a time, wherein to lose the immediate strain, wherein to await the call of God to the next stage and venture of the Spirit.

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