GOD IN MAN

"There is a bottomless resourcefulness in man that ultimately enables him to transform 'the spear of frustration into a shaft of light.' Under such a circumstance even one's deepest distress becomes so sanctified that a vast illumination points the way to the land one seeks. This is the God in man; because of it, man stands in immediate candidacy for the power to absorb all the pain of life without destroying his joy. He who has made that discovery knows at last that he can stand anything that can happen to him. 'The Blind Man stood on the road and cried"--the answer came in the cry itself. What a panorama of the ultimate dignity of the human spirit!

FOR THE INWARD JOURNEY, "Deep River," by Howard Thurman, (1984) Pp. 231-232