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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond read more
Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.
...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.
...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful read more
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.
Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.
It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own read more
It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own image. Rather does he create Him in the image of his cravings and dreams- in the image of what man wants to be. God making could be part of the process by which a society realizes its aspirations: it first embodies them in the conception of a particular God, and then proceeds to imitate that God. The confidence requisite for attempting the unprecedented is most effectively generated by the fiction that in realizing the new we are imitating rather than originating. Our preoccupation with heaven can be part of an effort to find precedents for the unprecedented.
...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
