“Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and reason. ... Harvey appears to have possessed, in a remarkable degree, the power of persuading and conciliating those with whom he came in contact. In the whole course of his long life we hear nothing either of personal enemies or personal enmities ... one of the great men whom God, in virtue of his eternal laws, bids to appear on earth from time to time to enlighten, and to ennoble mankind.” MenLongReasonWholeEarthLawCoursesEnemyVirtueMankindDegreesEternalContactCompareGuidanceGreat MenRemarkableFacultyPossessedLong LifeEnlighteningEnmityHarveyPersuading Author:William Harvey
“During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a chance that it could save them, or others, from the eternal torments of hell. Thus, in the name of the religion of love, hundreds of thousands of people were not merely killed but atrociously tortured in ways that made the gas chambers of Beslen seem humane.” PeopleIfsWayMadeSeemsAgeNamesChurchChanceHellAtheismDegreesEternalPositive AtheismCrueltyGasSinnerTormentJustifiedChamberHumaneHereticGas Chambers Author:Margaret E. Knight
“Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.” HeavenDemocracyTalentGoodnessDegreesEternalScalesDistinctionGraduatesAlmightyEverlastingNobilityPatentsTrue Democracy Author:Catharine Sedgwick
“ONLY in the release of the seen do you lay hold on the unseen, My little one. Heaven waits for those who are no longer bound to earth. The degree to which bondages are exchanged for liberties while still in the flesh is in proportion to the extent to which eternal values are held in higher esteem that worldly success and possessions. If a man loves Me, he will hold his soul more precious than his body and will pursue holiness at the expense of wealth; for to follow after that which perishes is to forfeit the prize of the high calling in Christ.” IfsMenLittlesStillsSoulBodyEarthValuesHeavenWaitingChristWealthLibertyHigherCallingDegreesEternalLaysBoundsPossessionFleshEsteemPursueReleaseProportionHolinessPrizeExpensesUnseenWorldlyBondageForfeit Author:Frances J Roberts
“You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!” WorldI CanStatesHeavenEnjoyCan DoPleasureThis WorldGoodnessDegreesEternalDeserveInfiniteRewardsNotionMeritImperfectExpectingGood WorkDuration Book:Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ... Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God's thoughts after him. The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.” ThinkingWorldScienceTalkingDegreesEternalCreatingDiscoverySurrenderNonsenseThinkerDiscoveringMathematicianTimelessParticipatingHardyKeplerThinking GodTalking Nonsense Author:Brand Blanshard