“Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.” KindCountryMotherReligionHeavenWalksVirtuePathTaughtDutyNursingTaught Us Book:Pensées of Joubert Source: Pensées of Joubert
“metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not really a rock or a mother eagle, it is easy enough to imagine that God is really a king or a father.” HumansEnoughGodMotherReligionFatherEasyImagineRocksKingsMetaphorImagine ThatHuman ExperienceEagles Book:Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women Source: Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women
“On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?” FirstsMaySaidShowsSpiritMotherReligionSpiritualityRoomsClassLaughingFlowerPrideSittingBlessedRoseBunchLaughedGardeningVirginsBugsLampsAltarsComradeLilacIrreverentCatechismPosies Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette