"Let one only begin to seek God and he shall find Him. He shall also find that religion brings an increase of strength and joy. It comes to man laden with both these blessings. It brings to him an increase of strength, because he becomes thereby the better master of his nature. All his faculties work more harmoniously with each other and in the true order of their subordination. For each department of our nature to work at its best, the body must be subordinated to the soul, and the soul to the spirit. So does the body work more healthily, the soul more wisely, the spirit with a higher power of usefulness. The religious man becomes a freeman, emancipated from the thraldom of passion, more than owner of himself, a monarch crowned."
---Charles Chapman Grafton; Christian and Catholic
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I didn't know about Charles Grafton. A quick look suggests I'll enjoy reading what he has to say. Thanks for posting this.
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ReplyDeleteGrafton along with St. Tikhon of Moscow had brought the Episcopal and Russian churches close to a working relationship, until the Irvine Incident scuttled the process.
He was a brilliant and influential theologian, churchman and apologists and as head of Nashotah House he held great influence over a generation of American clerics.