The net of Heaven is large and wide, but it lets nothing through. | |
— Chinese Proverb | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Chocolate |
Never Knowing | |
2020 | In Passing |
Look A Little Bit Closer | |
2019 | Especially Mine |
90 Day Health / Weight Update (Dec 2019) | |
2018 | And Some Never Do |
2017 | When We Know We Are Loved |
2016 | Good Acts |
2015 | Will You Be Leaving Soon? |
2014 | Just Long Enough |
2013 | R.I.P. – Tom Laughlin |
Seeking Success? | |
2012 | All Aboard |
2011 | Sail On, Sailor |
Posts Tagged ‘Heaven’
In Passing
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Proverbs, Quotes, tagged Chinese Proverb, Heaven, Net, Philosophy, Quotes on December 16, 2020| 2 Comments »
Earlier Still
Posted in Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Family, George Bernard Shaw, Heaven, Philosophy, Quotes on April 3, 2018| Leave a Comment »
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. | |
— George Bernard Shaw | |
[And, a Happy 91st Birthday to my mom! — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Guitar Music |
Yesterday | |
2021 | Maybe Faith Is Based On Hope |
I Want To See You Smile | |
2020 | Thank You (To Those Who Serve) |
Hanging In There | |
2019 | Her Job, Too |
2018 | Just Another Song I Like |
Earlier Still | |
2017 | Ten To Go |
2016 | Unstable Emergence |
2015 | 88 |
2014 | Some One-Liners Are Too Easy |
2013 | Greatness |
2012 | Memories Of Arlington |
2011 | Wake Up |
Oh, Heaven (Too)
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Afterlife, Bertrand Russell, Boredom, Heaven, Hell, Isaac Asimov, Philosophy, Punishment, Quotes on February 23, 2018| 2 Comments »
I do not myself believe that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. | |
— Bertrand Russell | |
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. | |
— Isaac Asimov | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Suggestions (The Order Of Precedence Is Optional)… |
2021 | But That’s Certainly Irrational |
Just Goin’ To My Room | |
2020 | The Butterflies Are In Trouble |
2019 | The Deep Center |
2018 | Oh, Heaven (Too) |
2017 | Now Pausing Makes Sense |
2016 | Just Spicy |
Only One Part | |
2015 | Positive Acts Of Creation |
2014 | One Thing Is Clear |
2013 | Corrections |
See Greatness | |
2012 | Gemutlichkeit |
2011 | Back On The Asphalt |
The Danger Of Walls
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Abraham Maslow, Heaven, Hell, My Journal, On Choices, On Security, Philosophy, Quotes on April 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The person… by protecting against the hell within himself, also cuts himself off from the heaven within. | |
— Abraham Maslow | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | I’ve Lost My Share |
2021 | You Decide |
A Dream And The Wind | |
2020 | Making Me |
2019 | Inside Your Head |
2018 | Lingering Curiosity |
2017 | Just Kidding |
2016 | The Danger Of Walls |
2015 | Protection |
2014 | Let It Go |
2013 | Don’t Know And Not Telling |
2012 | A Challenge For Progress |
2011 | Dependent Difficulty |
I Never Saw A Moor
Posted in Faith, My Journal, Poetry, Quotes, tagged Emily Dickinson, Faith, God, Heaven, I Never Saw A Moor, My Journal, Poems, Poetry, Quotes on January 23, 2013| 2 Comments »
I never saw a moor, | |
I never saw the sea; | |
Yet know I how the heather looks, | |
And what a wave must be. | |
I never spoke with God, | |
Nor visited in heaven; | |
Yet certain am I of the spot | |
As if the chart were given. | |
— Emily Dickinson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | And Even Fewer Regrets |
2021 | Today Counts |
I Hope You’ll Understand | |
2020 | Maybe #IncompetentDonald Really Is A Great Manager |
2019 | Your Only Choice |
2018 | A Good Definition |
2017 | Getting It Done |
2016 | Getting To Know Me |
2015 | Why I Pay Taxes |
2014 | Inequality Of Sacrifice |
2013 | I Never Saw A Moor |
2012 | Fill In The Blank |
Not For Naught | |
Cliff Notes To Life? | |
2011 | Conference Games Sunday |
Dog-gone Heaven
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Dogs, Heaven, Philosophy, Quotes, Will Rogers on June 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. | |
— Will Rogers | |
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Charles Carroll Of Carrollton (The Only Catholic Founder)
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Charles Carroll Of Carrollton, Divine Revelation, Golden Rule, Heaven, Immortality, James McHenry, Philosophy, Quotes, Religion on March 6, 2012| Leave a Comment »
… Divine revelation has been scoffed at by the Philosophers of the present day, the immortality of the soul treated as the dreams of fools, or the invention of knaves, & death has been declared by public authority an eternal sleep; these opinions are gaining ground amongst us & silently saping the foundations of religion & encouragement of good, the terror of evildoers and the consolation of the poor, the miserable, and the distressed. Remove the hope & dread of future reward & punishment, the most powerful restraint on wicked action, & the strongest inducement to virtuous ones is done away. | |
— Charles Carroll of Carrollton | |
Letter to Secretary of War James McHenry in 1800 | |
[If a person is virtuous in order to claim the reward of Heaven, are they truly virtuous? What happened to doing good for good’s sake? What about the Golden Rule? And why not have the death penalty for more crimes? Wouldn’t that lower the crime rate by increasing the dread? I guess I just don’t understand the “how” or the “why” of these things sapping the foundations of religion. — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Against Considerable Odds |
2021 | Only 10 |
Just A Hopeless Case | |
2020 | What We Know About Ourselves |
2019 | But It Feels Dirtier Lately |
2018 | I Remember Some More Than Others |
2017 | Creating Reality |
2016 | Come, Read To Me Some Poem |
2015 | Exceeding Service |
2014 | Still Learning |
Hospitality | |
2013 | Execution Not Intensity |
2012 | Charles Carroll Of Carrollton (The Only Catholic Founder) |
2011 | Life Works |
Pay Like Hell | |
Prosperity Finds Its Way Up | |