True
fasting, in other words, abstention from false thinking, coupled with the activity of good works, is thus spoken of by Isaiah: "Is not this the fast that I have chosen?
It
is written in Proverbs that "understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it;" and a psalm says that "with thee [God] is the fountain of life.
Few
passages, if any, in all the Gospels make stronger appeal as expressive of the transcendent love which Jesus bore for the disciples who had shared with him the hardship and dangers, the joys and triumphs, of his marvelous ministry, than are found in the seventeenth chapter of John's Gospel.
On
the road to Emmaus Jesus overtook two of his disciples and said to them, "What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
Presumably
everyone wishes to be intelligent and to express the harmony of intelligence at all times; yet it is only too apparent that this is not always the case with mankind.
