Excerpt from The Religion of a Layman
This is not a commentary - it is an interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount. I have turned quite away from all technical, critical questions of exegesis to indicate, if I might in terse and modern phrase, the main content and bearing of the more vital portions of this well-known and widely quoted passage of scripture. My indebtedness to that excellent treatise on "The Sermon on the Mount" by Bishop Gore will be manifest to anyone who reads both books.
We cannot make too plain the fact that religion is not primarily a system of beliefs to be cherished - it utilizes beliefs but they are altogether secondary. Religion is not a set of forms to be observed - it utilizes forms but they too are secondary. Religion is not a tremendous emotional upheaval through which a man may pass on his way to glory - it may utilize this as a line of approach or as a point of departure but such an experience is altogether incidental. Religion is a life to be lived seven days in the week in all those relationships which make up human existence. The man who is striving with all the grace God gives him to live the life of obedient trust and of unselfish action is religious and no other sort of man can be.
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