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It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

-William Gurnall

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William Gurnall

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

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It is not given to man to know the whole truth. his duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. god alone knows absolute truth. therefore, i have often said, truth is god. it follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. this is god's attribute alone. relative truth is all we know. therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

My god, sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the present. let it not overcome me, my god. let not flesh and blood conquer me. let not the world and its brief glory deceive me, nor the devil trip me by his craftiness. give me courage to resist, patience to endure, and constancy to persevere. give me the soothing unction of your spirit rather than all the consolations of the world, and in place of carnal love, infuse into me the love of your name.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, that not your trespass but my madness speaks.

There is no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting to do god's work without god's power. a man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the holy ghost upon him, is losing time after all.

... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... in a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.

A christian boy or girl can learn mathematics, for example, from a teacher who is not a christian; and truth is truth however learned. but while truth is truth however learned, the bearing of truth, the meaning of truth, the purpose of truth, even in the sphere of mathematics, seem entirely different to the christian from that which they seem to the non-christian; and that is why a truly christian education is possible only when christian conviction underlies not a part but all, of the curriculum of the school.

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