Thomas Cogswell Upham quotes

“Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure ***** my progress in the divine life.”
-- Thomas Cogswell Upham

Source : Thomas Cogswell Upham (1844). “Principles of the Interior Or Hidden Life: Designed Particularly for the Consideration of Those who are Seeking Assurance of Faith and Perfect Love”, p.283

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“If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.”
-- Thomas Cogswell Upham

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“Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.”
-- Thomas Cogswell Upham

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“Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.”
-- Thomas Cogswell Upham

Source : Thomas Cogswell Upham (1848). “Religious Maxims, Having a Connection with the Doctrines and Practice of Holiness”, p.8

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“Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'étendre la méfiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent à l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr.).”

“Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.”

“Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.”

“As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.”

“Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.”

“Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.”

“Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.”

Source : Anacreon, John Broderick Roche (1827). “The First Twenty-eight Odes of Anacreon: In Greek and in English and in Both Languages, in Prose as Well as in Verse : with Variorum Notes, a Grammatical Analysis and a Lexicon”, p.193

“Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.”

“You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.”

“Liberation is the path of transcendence. Manifestation is the path of immanence. Both lead to the same place: the divine.”