“Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.” MadePurposeSufferingHouseCausesCreaturesScreamMadhouses Author:Camille Claudel
“As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.” MadeAgeEarthPastCreaturesRegardErrorsLibraryFormerPreservesShelvesSuccessionLivelyLiving Creatures Book:On the Suffering of the World Source: On the Suffering of the World
“Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.” LittlesMadeTwoCountryTogetherLyingAnimalFourBecomingCreaturesGreedHungryPlentyDirtyIslandsFlood Author:Black Elk
“There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation. That interpretation has come at the expense of the one that says when God, in the story of Noah, intervened to save human life against the flood, against the acts of nature, He did not stop with human beings. He made sure that every kind of animal was represented twice on that ark.” MenHumansKindLittlesMadeStoriesHuman BeingsAnimalCreationCreaturesTheologyHuman LifeInterpretationExpensesCrownsFloodStrainHistoricDominionPsalmsArk Author:Bill Moyers
“We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.” MadeSinCreationHabitBandCreaturesCustomsSteel Author:Charles W. Chesnutt
“What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?” IfsMenMindMayDoeMadeIdeasSoulEndsAbleSpiritualPerfectDoubtSubjectsMaterialsPureProveCreaturesAll ThingsStonesCorruptionSuperiorsImmortalDiscouragingGrandeurStrength Of MindReptiles Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.” MenMadeSeemsInspiringMagicCreationInspireCreaturesToolsMetaphorVergeEfficacyMetaphoric Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.” NeedsMadeHelpingMightEarthOrderEvilFatherHeavenSinGraceCreaturesGoodnessDrawsResourcesTheeSinnerHeaven And EarthAugustine Author:Meister Eckhart
“Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.” KnowsNeedsFeelsDoeMadeSaidAsksFatherPrayerInformationCreationPrayingCreaturesLikesGod LoveInvitesPartnershipOur PrayersApostlesInvitingGod Is Love Author:Philip Yancey
“I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.” KnowsWorldShouldMindLooksMadeEndsRememberBitsSinPoorClearSawsTroubleTasteCreaturesMouthsConscienceShould HaveFellowsCastsHeavyEmsMischiefBreedingWorkmanship Book:Works Source: Works
“O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.” KnowsWritingMadeSoulEndsSufferingTeachCreaturesDepthClayPotters Book:Spiritual Progress Source: Spiritual Progress