Trevor Treharne famous quotes

You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.
-- Trevor Treharne

#May #Submissive #Reverence

Billions of years ago God was creating universes and life; thousands of years ago he was creating angry floods, sin-saving human sacrifices and audible burning bushes. Today he occasionally appears on a piece of toast. To state that God has become reclusive over the years would be an overwhelming understatement.
-- Trevor Treharne

#Sacrifice #Years #Creating

The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorrent that God had to kill himself. He had to embody the human form and send himself on a bizarre suicide mission just to revoke the disgustingness of the humans he created. I balk at suggestions that these ideas dictate to the concepts of morality and love.
-- Trevor Treharne

#Suicide #Jesus #Sacrifice

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.
-- Trevor Treharne

#Competition

At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000 years’ time – would the story of Moses’ burning bush amaze a generation laden with unimaginable scientific and technological wonders? Here lies religion’s biggest quandary. While science is squeezing the life out of God, how is religion going to muster a counterattack from here?
-- Trevor Treharne

#Jesus #Lying #Years

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.

Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.