Quotes from Gerald Massey

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.

A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile.

All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.

In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.

Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark Safely through all the Deluge of the dark.

When man to man shall be a friend and brother.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.

Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realisation that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

When man to man shall be friend and brother.

The world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, And if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.