“Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsChristianFallRealizingSeaPleaseValuableIntellectInvisibleMysteriousTidesImmenseChristian FaithRise And FallDecide Upon Author:Flannery O'Connor
“We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the wilderness, seems to me to be almost an archetypal image of human beings on their own, human beings making their own way, guiding themselves by the stars they can see - rather than by faith or prayer or invisible forces.” MenWayHumansSeemsForceStarsPrayerHuman BeingsSeaAtheismPositive AtheismInvisibleWildernessMelville Author:Maxine Greene
“All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.” CountryLyingNatureWhiteMysterySeaWindArmsBirdCloudsWaveInvisibleFlightDustShoreFar AwayRepetitionSoarMoonlightSea Birds Book:Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export
“Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?” TwoCoursesDifferencesWalksCommonSeaLandEvolutionDown AndIntentionFishesAttractionInvisibleBunchDustCuriousCellsImpulseLinksAncestorYearningMonkeysBackwardsDnaApesMagneticStaircasesCellular Book:Revolution Source: Revolution