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“God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a feed trough. ... For just an instant the sky grew luminous with angels, yet who saw the spectacle? Illiterate hirelings who watched the flocks of others, "nobodies" who failed to leave their names.”

Earth Names Animal Saws Sky Grew Kings Angel Lays Christmas Instant Shelter Flocks Luminous Illiterate Newborn Trough Animal Shelter

Book:The Jesus I Never Knew

Source: The Jesus I Never Knew

“Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.”

Should Believe Earth Environment Lays Environmental Surface Poison Silent Spring Insecticides

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil-all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.”

Heart Art Earth Tears Birth Lays Spokes Lap

Author:Matthew Arnold

“The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.”

World Long Earth Night Faith Sea Wind Breaths Lays Rounds Edges Naked Melancholy Shore Folds Withdrawing Girdles Shingles Round Earth

Author:Matthew Arnold

“If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.”

Ifs Believe Wells War Might Earth Jesus Water Rich Cutting Dying Taxes Lays Torture Eggs If You Believe Tax Cuts Bunnies Migrants Good Words

Author:Bill Maher

“We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.”

Source: Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house

“For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.”

Soul Hard Earth Hard Work Creatures Lays Vulnerable Rejection Fascinating Approval

Author:Faith Sullivan