The poem gains in greatness if we sense that it is the expression of a desire, a longing, rather than the narration of an event.
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Joy Davidman on True Belief
Here's a test to tell if your faith is anything more than faith-and-water. Suppose that tonight the Holy Spirit lifts you high into space, speaks a message to your conscience, then invisibly tucks you back into your safe little bed again. Will you consider the possibility that this experience is genuine? Or will you conclude at once that you must be crazy, and start yelling for a psychiatrist?
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Charles Spurgeon on Heaven and Earth
Between earth and heaven there is but a thin partition. The home country is much nearer than we think. I question if "the land that is very far off" be a true name for heaven. Was it not an extended kingdom on earth which was intended by the prophet rather than the celestial home? Heaven is by no means the far country, for it is the Father's house.
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“Discretion”
Original Poetry from Holly Day
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The Eleatic Stranger on Thought
Thought is the unuttered conversation of the soul with herself.
