The World and Its God Quotes

“This, then, is the doctrine of Scripture—the command which Scripture gives to the believer is to live in the world as one who does not belong to it, as a stranger in it and a pilgrim through it, as a foreigner whose "citizenship is in heaven" (Phil. iii. 20, R.v.).”
― Philip Mauro, THE WORLD AND ITS GOD:: Annotated

“The very first words of Him whose holy law had been broken and whose love had been suspected and spurned, reveal Him as seeking His fallen creature. "Where art thou?" is the question; and from that moment to the present we have the redemption of man proclaimed as the purpose of Jehovah, to be fulfilled in the person of the Eternal Son, who in the fulness of time came " to seek and to save that which was lost”
― Philip Mauro, THE WORLD AND ITS GOD:: Annotated

“Man was obviously not made for self-contemplation, but rather to look away from himself. This is apparent from his very anatomy. Man is, as to all his vital organs, practically hidden from himself. The important functions of the body are carried on by concealed apparatus and engines, marvellous contrivances whose operations and processes still, after all these centuries of self-examination, remain unsolvable mysteries. The processes of the mind are absolutely inscrutable to the mind itself. The senses are adapted to giving man information concerning external things; but concerning themselves, or how they transmit information from without, they can tell him practically nothing. Consciousness, that mysterious reservoir wherein is gathered all man's knowledge, contains no knowledge whatever of its own nature. What a calamity, therefore, has befallen a creature so organized, in becoming self-centred and addicted to self-contemplation!”
― Philip Mauro, THE WORLD AND ITS GOD:: Annotated

“The woman ate of the fruit, and the man, who apparently stood by during the colloquy (for the account says that she gave unto her husband, who was with her), immediately followed her example. The man apparently was prudent and willing to listen to, without taking part in, the discussion between the woman and the first higher critic of the Word of God. Apparently he watched her experiment, and, seeing that no visible harm followed, imitated her action. Have we here the explanation of woman's influence over man in spiritual matters and in affairs wherein the affections are concerned? The result was, indeed, the immediate acquisition of- knowledge. "The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked." Moreover, this newly-acquired knowledge was immediately applied to practical use, and mankind forthwith entered upon its career of activity. "And they sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons.”
― Philip Mauro, THE WORLD AND ITS GOD:: Annotated

“This wonderful system has worlds within worlds. We hear of the world of business, the world of politics, the world of fashion, the world of pleasure, the world of science, the world of sport, the world of nuance, the world of music, the world of literature; the dramatic world, the social world, the industrial world, the commercial world, the religious world. Everyone can have a share! This prodigious world-system includes monarchies, republics, despotisms, laws, customs, traditions, corporations, syndicates, trusts, banks, clubs, brotherhoods, colleges, theatres, race-tracks, gambling-halls, trades unions, philanthropies, liquor saloons, brothels, inebriate homes and cures, sanitariums, reformatories, temperance societies, jails, libraries, cemeteries, insane asylums, courts, legislatures, lobbies, stock markets, department stores, insurance companies, newspapers, magazines, automobiles, philosophies, fashions, cults, factories, railroads, navies, armies, high explosives, diplomacies, peace tribunals, hypnotism, spiritualism, Christian Science, Higher Criticism, New Thought, and religious systems to suit every shade of opinion. To all these and other restless, stirring, feverish activities, organizations and contrivances, is given the imposing title of "civilization," whose glorious mission is to go forward and conquer the earth for man.1”
― Philip Mauro, THE WORLD AND ITS GOD:: Annotated