Another book assigned by my Classic Moms class at Abigail Adams Academy that I'm so happy to have read! Written in 1929 by Lloyd C. Douglas, this book brought me closer to the idea of God that I love so much. It touches on the idea that God is not just a character in the Christian Bible, that He may be so much more. We watched the Rock Hudson movie as well and it dwelt more on the love story and less on the spiritual side of it, but it was still a great movie.
The idea is that...well, you have to read the book to really get it. I'll give you a few of my favorite lines though.
"Of course, if you decide to experiment with this projection of yourself through investments in other people, you must be prepared for all manner of failures, disillusionment, disgusts. You will frequently go to no end of trouble and expense for somebody who turns out to be a pest and a piker. You will be imposed upon, lied to, lied about! You will run into cases of ingratitude so rank that it will sicken you! But - now and again, you will manage to put the thing over...and when you do you will discover it has squared for all the failures you've had!"
"I've thought a good deal about the soul lately, Granpere. It strikes me that the things one reads about souls are frightfully misleading. They inquire, 'What are you doing to, for, and with your soul?' as they might ask 'When are you going to turn in your old car?'...I can't say 'my soul', as I would 'my hat', or ' my canoe', or 'my liver'...I AM a soul! I have a body! My body is wearing out, and when I can't tinker it back into service any more, I'll drive it out to the junk-pile; but I don't have to be junked with it! I'm tied up to the Major Personality!...like a beam of sunshine to the sun!...I'll not lose my power unless He loses His!...If that's religion, Grandpere, I'm religious! But I'd rather think of it as science!"
"This oncoming generation, now in its adolescence, is not in the least way concerned about organized religion. Religious enough, instinctively, I dare say; but out of sorts with the sects; weary of their bad-mannered yammering at one another over matters in which one man's guess is as good as another's, and no outcome promised either in faith or conduct, no matter whose guess is right!"
The idea is that...well, you have to read the book to really get it. I'll give you a few of my favorite lines though.
"Of course, if you decide to experiment with this projection of yourself through investments in other people, you must be prepared for all manner of failures, disillusionment, disgusts. You will frequently go to no end of trouble and expense for somebody who turns out to be a pest and a piker. You will be imposed upon, lied to, lied about! You will run into cases of ingratitude so rank that it will sicken you! But - now and again, you will manage to put the thing over...and when you do you will discover it has squared for all the failures you've had!"
"I've thought a good deal about the soul lately, Granpere. It strikes me that the things one reads about souls are frightfully misleading. They inquire, 'What are you doing to, for, and with your soul?' as they might ask 'When are you going to turn in your old car?'...I can't say 'my soul', as I would 'my hat', or ' my canoe', or 'my liver'...I AM a soul! I have a body! My body is wearing out, and when I can't tinker it back into service any more, I'll drive it out to the junk-pile; but I don't have to be junked with it! I'm tied up to the Major Personality!...like a beam of sunshine to the sun!...I'll not lose my power unless He loses His!...If that's religion, Grandpere, I'm religious! But I'd rather think of it as science!"
"This oncoming generation, now in its adolescence, is not in the least way concerned about organized religion. Religious enough, instinctively, I dare say; but out of sorts with the sects; weary of their bad-mannered yammering at one another over matters in which one man's guess is as good as another's, and no outcome promised either in faith or conduct, no matter whose guess is right!"
