“It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.” WayChristianUniverseDifferencesAcceptingEmotionalSaintPassionatePracticalsResignationStoicReligious Experience Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical.” DifferentChristianIdealsBasesAgreePracticalsBuddhistCommunist Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems