“That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.” ShouldFirstsHeartPersonsDoeEarthHeavenFeltImaginationChristianityMankindSeriousRelationDoctrineIncarnationSerious Person Author:James Anthony Froude
“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.” IfsWayChildrenSometimesPlayActionEarthDeathSeriousHugeStonesStructureProfoundSignificantGravesConcreteAnother Way Author:Jamaica Kincaid