“HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.” ChildrenDoneEarthUniverseGivenPrayerAnimalPlanetsBalanceHarmonyVery GoodInsightCosmosOur Planet Book:The Temple of My Familiar Source: The Temple of My Familiar
“Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption?” ThinkingGivingWarStoriesPrayerWhiteAnimalAirOfficeAnd LoveCreatorPostsGreekDepartmentPriestsGoddessConsumptionAgricultureSantaRequestBeardSanta ClausZeusChariotsPost OfficeOdinHuntressMerchandising Author:Donald E. Westlake
“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.” HumansGodAsksPrayerAnimalPrayingCravingHuman Animal Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.” WorldLifeHumansWellsWarPrayerAnimalGoneRealizationWar Of The WorldsSanctityWorld War OneSanctity Of Life Author:Christopher Morley
“Man's greatest advances are weapon advances. Culture follows from weaponry, we are militant like the animals and birds - defending our homes. No matter how far back you go in history, along with the struggle for existence, along with the survival necessities - kill or be killed, eat or be eaten - there is a hunger for something spiritual. He invents God, prayers, incantations to something above him. Why? This is not brought out - this is not weapon culture.” MenMatterHomeSpiritualCulturePrayerAnimalExistenceStruggleWeaponsSurvivalBirdHungerPraying To GodMilitantGod PrayerWeaponryStruggle For Existence Author:Frank Capra