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May 31, 2009
ambassadors of god
Look to those whose nature demonstrated a high level of that force of attraction that actively seizes surrounding things, but who also posses so much of the spiritual penetration drive, which strives for the infinite and impregnates all spirit and life, that they express it in the actions to which the former impels them…By their mere existence such people prove themselves to be ambassadors of God and mediators between limited man and infinite humanity. They show the inactive, merely speculative idealist, who splits his nature into empty thoughts, that this thing is active, which he merely imagined, and that what he hitherto despised is the material he should actually treat, they explain to him the misunderstood voice of God, and reconcile him with the earth and with his place in it.
Schleiermacher - On Religion
Posted by amin at May 31, 2009 1:24 PM