Saturday, July 10, 2010

living spirit...

This from a letter written by Samuel Longfellow in about 1840 after graduation from Harvard and before going to the Divinity School:

"I cannot help thinking that the great deficiency of Unitarian preachers, which even Unitarians are beginning to see and acknowledge, — their forgetting, apparently, that man has a ' living spirit' as well as a thinking mind...

Blessings