Word: gide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gide: "By heaven! I knew it: you too know how to talk in parables...
...Gide: "This is because you speak in turn to the mind, to the heart, to the senses; and since, while protecting myself on one side, I am always uncovering myself on the other, you, who keep moving around me, always address yourself to the unguarded side...
...Gide: "What...
Frightful Shadow. In spite of his lifelong preoccupation with moral struggle and theological terms, Gide has said that he is an atheist and expects to die as one. He has also said: "I am neither a Protestant nor a Catholic; I am simply a Christian." Like other devout atheists, he is deeply concerned with God, and an earnest reader of the Bible. His Journals and, indeed, almost all his books have religious overtones. Sometimes a Biblical text haunts him for hours at a time: " 'Except a man be born again.' All this morning I repeated these words...
...Gide spends many pages of the Journals trying to prove that the Church has become an obstacle between Christ and man. As for spiritual solace, each man, he thinks, must find it within himself, in his own way and in his own time. To converted Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, who once asked him to pray for Christ's guidance, Gide replied: "Understand me, Maritain, I have lived too long and too intimately, and you know it, in the thought of Christ to agree to call on him today as one rings someone up on the telephone. Indeed...