"I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind"

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Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.42, Library of America

Countee Cullen

#God Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Kind Quotes

“There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.”
“If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.”
“Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.”
“An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.”
“The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.”
“Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in.”
“Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.”
“The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness. 'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.' But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?”

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