God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
God is using people to accomplish His work, of saving souls, but we have to remember that it is not us doing the work. It's God using our vessel.
If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.