“Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.” TryingDiesNaturalAliveConstitutionVicesCuriousCalumnyNatural DeathCalumny Is Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.” GivingKindMayPersonsChristianSpiritNightDiesTurnsHopeNaturalAliveEternityContraryHopelessnessDescribing Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.” MindJoyNaturalReligiousAliveMiracleTalesTraditionalAllowingSurroundYearningInherentEmergenceNaturalist Book:The Sacred Depths of Nature Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature
“This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.” WorldArtEndsJoyEvilNaturalExistenceAlivePureIllnessDisasterInstantInjurySheerBargainsSplendorInvoluntaryNatural DisasterSheer JoyPure Evil Author:Jeff Greenfield
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.” IfsWorldShouldYearsRunningPurposeSufferingUniverseEvilNaturalAnimalAliveMinutesDyingDesignEvolutionAmountDiseasePropertySpeciesBottomSentencesIndifferenceContemplationDecentTake MeThirstNatural WorldStarvationParasitesGod Delusion Author:Richard Dawkins
“The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death.” GivingNatureNaturalAliveWindRainCrawlingGleamSwamps Author:Ed Wood