Simplicity: A Rich Quakers View
It seemed to me worthwhile to explore what the testimony of simplicity really meant to me. Right off, it appeared that what was simple to John was fancy to Jane, and vice-versa. The whole area of application of light to specific individual action is notional in the extreme, and any one who presumes to advise--much worse to establish rules--on the basis of his own experience falls into spiritual pride and can cause great damage. It is easy to see the mote in Bernard of Clairvaux's eye as he preached the Second Crusade:
I say that the soldier of Christ kills in safety and dies in greater safety. He profits himself when he dies and he profits Christ when he kills ... Truly when he kills a criminal, he commits not homicide, but as I would call it, malicide.
But is it as easy to see the beam in our own? Merely in setting down what the testimony of simplicity means to me, I run the risk of falling into such error.
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I say that the soldier of Christ kills in safety and dies in greater safety. He profits himself when he dies and he profits Christ when he kills ... Truly when he kills a criminal, he commits not homicide, but as I would call it, malicide.
But is it as easy to see the beam in our own? Merely in setting down what the testimony of simplicity means to me, I run the risk of falling into such error.
Simplicity: A Rich Quakers View
It seemed to me worthwhile to explore what the testimony of simplicity really meant to me. Right off, it appeared that what was simple to John was fancy to Jane, and vice-versa. The whole area of application of light to specific individual action is notional in the extreme, and any one who presumes to advise--much worse to establish rules--on the basis of his own experience falls into spiritual pride and can cause great damage. It is easy to see the mote in Bernard of Clairvaux's eye as he preached the Second Crusade:
I say that the soldier of Christ kills in safety and dies in greater safety. He profits himself when he dies and he profits Christ when he kills ... Truly when he kills a criminal, he commits not homicide, but as I would call it, malicide.
But is it as easy to see the beam in our own? Merely in setting down what the testimony of simplicity means to me, I run the risk of falling into such error.
I say that the soldier of Christ kills in safety and dies in greater safety. He profits himself when he dies and he profits Christ when he kills ... Truly when he kills a criminal, he commits not homicide, but as I would call it, malicide.
But is it as easy to see the beam in our own? Merely in setting down what the testimony of simplicity means to me, I run the risk of falling into such error.
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| BN ID: | 2940156766185 |
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| Publisher: | Pendle Hill Publications |
| Publication date: | 12/01/2016 |
| Series: | Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #189 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 106 KB |
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