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I am currently reading an autobiography of a fascinating man, whose name most definitely everybody on RHP knows.
I present here below four short quotes from his book, and I pose the challenge to SF members to hazard a guess as to who wrote this.
The first quote is after his visit to a place that pilgrim’s visited, which he, most disappointingly, found to be in serious disrepair:
When his ten-year-old son was seriously ill, he chose to ignore the doctors’ advice, and use his own remedy, and prayer. He writes:
His son recovered. Two more quotes follow:
and this one I particularly like:
Who wrote this?
I present here below four short quotes from his book, and I pose the challenge to SF members to hazard a guess as to who wrote this.
The first quote is after his visit to a place that pilgrim’s visited, which he, most disappointingly, found to be in serious disrepair:
If anyone doubts the mercy of God, let him have a look at these sacred places. How much hypocrisy and irreligion does the Lord of the Universe suffer to be perpetrated in His holy name? He proclaimed long ago: “Whatever a man sows, that shall he reap.” That law is inexorable and impossible of evasion. There is thus hardly any need for God to interfere. He laid down the law and, as it were, retired. (page 228)
When his ten-year-old son was seriously ill, he chose to ignore the doctors’ advice, and use his own remedy, and prayer. He writes:
The doctors could not guarantee recovery. At best they could experiment. The thread of life was in the hands of God. Why not trust it to him and in His Name go on with what I thought was the right treatment. ’My honour is in Thy keeping, oh Lord, in this hour of trial,’ I repeated to myself. (page 232)
His son recovered. Two more quotes follow:
It may be said that God has never allowed any of my own plans to stand. He has disposed them in His own way.(page 234)
and this one I particularly like:
I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is TRUTH is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that certainty and hitch one’s wagon to it. The quest for Truth is the summum bonum of life. (page 235)
Who wrote this?