Tag: god
member name: Bill Allin
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August 26, 2006 06:00 PM EDT --
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect . . .
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March 13, 2008 07:20 PM EDT --
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his
creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who
is but a reflection of human frailty.
-Albert Einstein, . . .
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September 22, 2006 07:10 PM EDT --
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."
- Vincent Van Gogh
I am convinced . . .
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October 27, 2006 07:10 PM EDT --
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
- Robert Lynd, writer (1879-1949)
Aye, there's the rub.
How can I help others with their suffering if I . . .
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November 04, 2006 01:02 PM EST --
A member of one of my non-Gather groups replied to one of my posts there with the following, to which I wanted to respond:
> I have long believed that dying is like stepping into another room of . . .
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December 24, 2006 04:10 PM EST --
After several years of cowering in fear of the wrath of loudmouths of the politically correct movement, by using "Happy Holidays!" or "Season’s Greetings!", several large businesses . . .
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December 29, 2006 04:02 PM EST --
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry, author and columnist (1947- )
As I see it, there are only two reasons why people want . . .
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July 24, 2006 07:18 PM EDT --
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus, historian (c.55-c.120)
Human nature easily qualifies as the most peculiar characteristic of nature. Whether or not we . . .
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October 10, 2006 03:51 PM EDT --
One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human . . .
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October 22, 2006 06:05 PM EDT --
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to
find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a
necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful . . .
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November 03, 2006 04:28 PM EST --
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
- Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994)
What Nizer called true religion, some today call spirituality. Or something close. We don't have a good . . .
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August 10, 2006 04:15 PM EDT --
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should . . .
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December 09, 2007 02:44 PM EST --
I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.
- Sting, (Gordon . . .
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April 06, 2008 06:38 PM EDT --
The highest level of prayer is not prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are . . .
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May 31, 2008 05:04 PM EDT --
There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Misérables
It's impossible . . .
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August 23, 2009 08:00 AM EDT --
Living Beyond Your Life Today
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It's the one who won't be taken . . .
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July 23, 2007 05:36 PM EDT --
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save
people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of
their words. I think he would prefer an honest and . . .
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June 06, 2008 09:17 PM EDT --
When did God get bored with nothing and decide to create something?
Whether you believe any of the thousands of creation stories that have existed for millennia around the world or you prefer the utilitarian . . .
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August 15, 2009 06:39 PM EDT --
Who Is An Atheist?
"Samuel [Champlain] has seen other men of the church become as this one: to them, their own insight becomes dogma. Indeed it seems a perversion common to all leadership..." - The . . .
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October 10, 2009 04:12 PM EDT --
Your Life In A Day
With the passage of time, all such actions or lack of them, appear less significant. And anyway, since the cells in our body die and are renewed, replaced by different ones, we do . . .
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