Lawrence Pearsall Jacks Quotes

The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks

• Mind
• Nature
• Society

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks

• Character
• Science
• Development

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks

• Work
• Art
• Play

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks

• Power
• Faith
• Reason

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks

• God
• Light
• Mean

I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks

• Experience
• Way
• Road

No one will know what you mean by saying that 'God is love' unless you act it as well.

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks

• God
• Mean
• Valentine's Day

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks

• Light
• Matter
• Stronger