“Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.” WorldWarHumanityReligiousBloodSeaUnderstood Author:Irena Sendler
“As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. It is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. The childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.” PeopleLittlesStillsReasonSeemsLawYoungUnderstandingReligiousWonderSeaYouthTheoryNeededMoralityEthicsAccountsIgnorantReason WhyBehaveSimplestOlder PeopleMisconduct Book:The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography Source: The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography
“Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.” MotherReligiousSeaEternalHeavenlyShoreVirgin MarySplendourBlessed Mother Author:Pio of Pietrelcina
“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.” IfsLooksCertainEnergyReligiousSeaLandMankindFineCivilizationOfficeLettersPostsLook UpAddressesMeterGuardedArtilleryPost OfficeGlutenCheapness Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.” PeopleHappensAgeMovingLawSoundReligiousSeaPossibilityMiracleDenyTechnologicalLaws Of Nature Book:You Shall See His Glory in the Morning! Source: You Shall See His Glory in the Morning!
“Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.” PeopleImportantProblemChristianSocialCausesReligiousChristianitySeaRootsPopulationShootingElephantsOtters Author:Ted Turner
“Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and undisturbedly in the face of afflictions from one's neighbor. Meekness is a cliff rising from the sea of irritability, against which all the that waves that strive against it break, but which is itself never broken.” InspirationalMindStatesChristianFacesReligiousBreakSeaBrokenPrayingHonorRemainsStriveWaveNeighborRisingOrthodoxState Of MindAfflictionSincerelyCliffsMeeknessUnchangingDishonor Author:John Climacus
“Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch, cross a great sea, and establish a new nation, so, too, the children of Great Britain were led by God to leave the land of their religious oppression, cross a great ocean, inhabit a promised land, and, eventually, resist a "tyrannical" George III and create a new nation in "God's American Israel."” ChildrenNationsReligiousSeaLandOceanCrossesIsraelOppressionBritainMonarchsGreat BritainPromised Land Author:Daniel L Dreisbach