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...faculty was young and stimulating, his work was rewarding, and he had already begun lessons with the famed French organist, Charles Marie Widor. But Schweitzer's thoughtful happiness also carried with it some pain. "It became steadily clearer to me," he has written, "that I had not the inward right to take as a matter of course my happy youth, my good health, and my power of work. Out of the depths of my feeling of happiness there grew up gradually within me an understanding . . . that . . . whosoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing...
...what meaning lay hidden for me in the saying of Jesus: 'Whosoever would save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospels shall save it.' Now the answer was found. In addition to the outward, I had now inward happiness...
Some see a special significance in the fact that the U.S., where religion has most strikingly expressed itself in the activist tradition (i.e., hospitals, orphanages and other forms of good works), has taken so well to Merton's inward-looking brand of spirituality. Whether or not U.S. religious interests are growing more contemplative, they are certainly growing. Chicago Daily News Columnist Sydney J. Harris said of The Seven Storey Mountain: "This book shows how far we have traveled since the 'sos. First, we were the social revolutionaries, looking down our noses at Babbitts. Then we realized that social...
...then something happens to Charlie and their marriage. He gets to thinking where it's all leading, fed-up with the hypocrisy and inward rottenness of the moguls out there who cut out, like cookies, America's culture, morality, and dreams. So he tries to leave Hollywood but can't, because he once killed someone and might be exposed by the studio...
...already robbed sin and death, the devil and hell of their power? . . . Should we not see that 'God's design' therefore does not mean the existence of the church in the world, its task in relation to the world's disorder, its outward and inward activity as an instrument for the amelioration of human life, or finally the result of this activity in the Christianization of all humanity and, consequently, the setting up of an order of justice and peace embracing our whole planet? That 'God's design' does not mean something like...