"[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things."

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William James

#Order Quotes #Grace Quotes #Unseen Quotes

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”

Source : Guillaume Apollinaire (2015). “Selected Poems: with parallel French text”, p.17, OUP Oxford
“I'd like you much better if you didn't like yourself so much.”
“Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.”

Source : Thomas Clarkson (1788). “An essay on the slavery”, p.60
“Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.”
“If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world.”
“My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.”
“In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.”
“Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem.”

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