The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief.
While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
