"I donâ€™t believe in â€œlaying to restâ€ the past. There are wounds we wonâ€™t get over. There are things that happen to us that, no matter how hard we try to forget, no matter with what fortitude we face them, what mix of religion and therapy we swallow, what finished and durable forms of art we turn them into, are going to go on happening inside of us for as long as our brains are alive."

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Christian Wiman

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“It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.”
“Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.”
“He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.”
“I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.”
“People give out compliments because it's polite.”
“Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone, through the strength of understanding, which, if transformed into wisdom, always means the performance of necessary actions.”
“It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action”

Source : Walter Rauschenbusch (2008). “A Gospel for the Social Awakening: Selections from the Writings of Walter Rauschenbusch”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.”

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