“You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.” WayPastTeachLetting GoWasteGods WillOur PastYour Past Book:Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons Source: Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons
“People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.” PeopleWorldPastAsksEasyBornInformationLessonsWasteMeaning Of LifePredecessorsKnowledge And InformationBrief Life Author:Erik Naggum
“The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!” WorldHeartDoneFeelingsAgePastBeautifulEvilSocialExistenceProgressImpossiblePolicyWasteDestructionDistanceSurpriseSelfishTheologyCrueltyHypocrisyIntoleranceMonumentPiousDisturbanceConjunctionsWaste Of Life Author:Lydia M. Child