“Some people... some people like cupcakes Exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on the face of god's grey Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!” PeopleEarthFacesOughtGreyExaltedCupcakesMuffins Author:Frank Zappa
“The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life ought to be drawn to it like a magnet to its center.” WholeEarthChristianJesusOughtDelightWhole LifeTreasureSacramentsEucharistMagnet Author:Peter Julian Eymard
“Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.” EarthScienceHumanityGenerationsTreeOughtForestsExhaustedConsumedPosterityOrchardForests And TreesTrusteesArbor Day Author:Julius Sterling Morton
“Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him is the spirit that comes from God. Man lived before he came to this earth, and he is here now to strive to perfect the spirit within. At sometime in his life, every man is conscious of a desire to come in touch with the Infinite. His spirit reaches out for God. This sense of feeling is universal, and all men ought to be, in deepest truth, engaged in the same great work—the search for and the development of spiritual peace and freedom.” MenBelieveFeelingsEarthSpiritualSpiritDesirePerfectDevelopmentOughtConsciousUniversalInfiniteStriveEvery ManEngagedDivinityReach OutStrifeGreat WorkSpiritual PeaceOnward And Upward Author:David
“Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are assisted rather than delayed in our journey.” IfsUseEarthJourneyOughtBlessingDelayed Author:John Calvin
“This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace, some things having died off, some sprouting in their first spring, but all of equal and utter rightness.” FirstsWould BeEarthLastsPerfectTreeSpecialRocksOughtEqualSpringMiracleDiedWinterSnowAutumnPaceMoss Author:Jean Liedloff
“Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.” IfsEarthEffortEnemyAtheismWorstMankindOughtPositive AtheismTheologySufficientWorst Enemy Author:Lydia M. Child
“Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.” PeopleWorldEarthMoralOughtTravelAcquireBeing The BestConcentrationTraveledDesirableImperativesWorldliness Book:The feminine eye Source: The feminine eye
“Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!” IfsHas BeensEarthEffortOughtAmountIntellectTheologyDoctrineSufficientLabourShallowEmployedPuddles Author:Lydia M. Child