“I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.” ThinkingWorldMayStillsBeautifulSleepLandAwakeningGladHeavenlyEmancipationCaptivity Author:Lyman Abbott
“One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.” MenMayPlayWould BeImagineGladImagine ThatAmusementViolinTrumpets Book:If I lived my life again Source: If I lived my life again
“Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.” MaySelfWholeLightTurnsSecretWonderOffersQuietPraiseHumbleGladSurrenderChairsAbandonJoyfulEjaculation Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly
“...it may be that there is no God, that the existence of all that is beautiful and in any sense good is but the accidental and ineffective byproduct of blindly swirling atoms, that we are alone in a world that cares nothing for us or for the values that we create and sustain - that we and they are here for a moment only, and gone, and that eventually there will be left no trace of us in the universe. A man may well believe that this dredful thing is true. But only the fool will say in his heart that he is glad that it is true.” ThinkingMenWorldBelieveWellsHeartMayMomentsCareBeautifulValuesUniverseLeftExistenceGoneFoolGladAtomsThere Is No God Author:Sterling M. McMurrin
“Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.” ThinkingKnowsMenNeedsMayLittlesShowsLightWould BeLevelsHalfFlowErrorsFaultsSurfaceWitGladBitesPearlsScarceStrawsFleas Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden