Allow Truth to Settle Your Fear and Strengthen Your Muscles

“God is reality, that which is; nonviolence, that which holds back from hurt; love, that which goes out to others; pure wisdom, that which is free of outward schemes. He is that power which the apostle John called Truth – that name so profound and yet so incomplete, which embraces all the others, which suggests the eternal inward fact and order and aim of all life. To mean the words the Power of Truth is to mean the very source and strength of all that exists.

This power is a force vaster than weapons or prisons, more compelling than fame or fear or success or money, more penetrating than any of the notions whereby men try to enlarge their egos and to gain face in the outward conduct of their lives. It conquers oppression, settles fear, shakes the hearts of the strong, strengthens the muscles of the weak.”

— Herrymon Maurer, 1950 (source)
Quaker recorded minister, writer, and editor