Today I want to share a quote by a man named Will Durant. He was a writer, historian and philosopher who won a Pulitzer Prize with his wife for a series of books they wrote called The Story of Civilization. I’m going to read a passage from the third volume in the series, “Caesar and Christ”. Durant wrote this about Jesus:
“The revolution he sought was a far deeper one, without which reforms could only be superficial and transitory. If he could cleanse the human heart of selfish desire, cruelty, and lust, utopia would come of itself, and all those institutions that rise out of human greed and violence, and the consequent need for law, would disappear. Since this would be the profoundest of all revolutions, beside which all others would be mere coups d’etat of class ousting class and exploiting in its turn, Christ was, in this spiritual sense, the greatest revolutionary in history.”
I’m not sure if I fully understand the meaning of that paragraph, but Will Durant spent his whole life studying history and philosophy, and I want to share something he said near the end of his life.
At the age of 92, when asked if he could summarize all the lessons of history into a single sentence, he said,
“Love one another.
My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus.
You may think that’s a lot of lollipop but just try it.
Love is the most practical thing in the world.”
Thank you for sharing this time with me,
and may God Bless You.
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