"Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil."

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Source : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1859). “Sermons Preached Before His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales: During His Tour in the East in the Spring of 1862 with Notices of Some of the Localities Visited”, p.284

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#Evil Quotes #Necessary Evil Quotes #Remember Quotes

“Madlen: 'It's a relief to me, Lady Queen, that in your own pain, you take no interest in hurting yourself.' Bitterblue: 'Why would I? Why should I? It's foolish. I would like to kick the people who do it.' Madlen: 'That would, perhaps, be redundant, Lady Queen.”
“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”
“The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)”
“Where there is lasting love, there is a family.”
“For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.Â As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.Â That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.Â When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.Â We call this the moment of death.Â That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.”
“[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.”
“The critical question for our generationâ€”and for every generationâ€” is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?”
“We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.”

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