"Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms"

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Source : Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”

Joseph McCabe

#Dark Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Age Quotes

“In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.”
“Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.”
“I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife.”
“When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.”
“Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those, who will be conquering space after me.”
“I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think ***** is pretty lightweight.”
“How it is we have so much information, but know so little?”
“I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.”

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