A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.
The Pentecostal movement was destined to launch itself not just vertically with a variety of black-majority or white-majority congregations affiliated with Pentecostal teachings and practice but also horizontally into every Protestant denomination in the country, eventually changing the face of Christianity, both Protestant and Catholic, across the globe. Its message and appeal were cross-cultural and multiethnic, and it spoke many languages, human and spiritual. Some studies suggest that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, one in four Christians around the world was Pentecostal or charismatic.
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From the beginning of that brisk October, when 2,540 out of 2,908 eligible cardinals, patriarchs, bishops, and abbots arrived in Rome, it was apparent Vatican II would be a council unlike any other. The sheer weight of numbers showed that. There had been only six hundred to seven hundred fathers at the First Vatican Council, which proclaimed the infallibility of the pope in 1869–70. At the eighteen-year-long Council of Trent, which condemned the Protestant Reformation, only about two hundred members voted on the decrees. This time there were 230 fathers from a country that had been mission territory until 1908—the United States. The American group was second only to the Italian, which had 430 members. There were 230 Africans and more than 300 from Asia.
The Evangelical Awakening gained unexpected reinforcement in 1960 from another source of personal Christianity, Pentecostalism. The Pentecostal experience—“the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues”—was not new. The spark of twentieth-century Pentecostalism was a three-year-long revival, beginning in 1906, at the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles.
And yet I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. Though I did lay it down at the beginning that consciousness is the greatest misfortune for man, yet I know man prizes it and would not give it up for any satisfaction. Consciousness, for instance, is infinitely superior to twice two makes four. Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do or to understand.
"I am the guest of eagles, I am Ring-finder and Luck-wearer; and I am Barrel-rider" continued Bilbo. He was beginning to be pleased with his riddles.
"Ha! That's better! Said Smaug.
