God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December. | |
— James Barrie | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | That’s Gotta Leave A Scar |
It’s All About Me (…Not!) | |
2014 | Bull’s-Eye Next |
2013 | Change ÷ Time |
2012 | High Anxiety |
2011 | To Be, Do |
2010 | In the Arena… |
Not An Island, Today… | |
Posts Tagged ‘On God’
Man’s Advantage Over God
Posted in Quotes, tagged Marcus Harrison, On Creation, On God, On Pain, Quotes, The Memoirs Of Jesus Christ on April 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
When I had to consider the meaning of suffering I was faced with the ageless question: Why does God allow it? | |
I conceive the answer to be that God has need of us to suffer for him; otherwise he could not know the extent of his creation, since creation without suffering does not exist. | |
God has created us to suffer through us, and since we believe that God is compassionate, think what agony our suffering must cause Him, cosmic suffering, on such scale! | |
It must be hard for God to do this to us, it must cause Him endless, infinite pain, since he is incapable of release through sleep or death. There he has shown us mercy; there we have the advantage of Him. | |
— Marcus Harrison | |
From his book: “The Memoirs of Jesus Christ“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Deeply |
2014 | Hi-Yo Silver, Away! |
2013 | Warning: |
2012 | Thinking About Beauty |
2011 | A Founding Father’s Argument Against Public Funding Of Religious Education |
Weekend Update | |
So Far, So Good | |
Poor Management Choices
Posted in Faith, Humor, Quotes, tagged Faith, Humor, On God, On Man, Oscar Wilde, Quotes on March 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. | |
–– Oscar Wilde | |
[Notice the “h” in “his”… Methinks, Oscar refers to the latter (man) rather than the former (God). But I could be wrong… — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Is It Still Dark Out? |
2014 | Rule One |
2013 | Spelling God’s Name |
2012 | Love Your Life And Sing |
Feeling Under the Weather? | |
2011 | Cheers, Friend! |
Patience Is A Virtue
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Poetry, Quotes, tagged Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, My Journal, On God, On Patience, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Quotes, Retribution, Virtues on March 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Retribution |
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Though the mills of God grind slowly, | |
Yet they grind exceeding small; | |
Though with patience he stands waiting, | |
With exactness grinds he all. | |
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Slow Faith |
2014 | Not In Any Sense |
2013 | The Circus On TV |
2012 | To Be Stronger |
2011 | Are You Sure? |
Would That This Be True
Posted in Faith, Quotes, tagged Faith, On God, On Seeking Peace, Quotes, The Crisis, Thomas Paine on December 14, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. | |
— Thomas Paine | |
From: “The Crisis“ | |
23 December 1776 | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Just Catching My Breath |
I Still Believe | |
2020 | Sometimes It Does |
Sweet As Rain Upon My Tongue | |
2019 | Pushing The Envelope |
2018 | The Price Of Justice Is (Sometimes) Security |
2017 | Time Too |
2016 | The Cornerstone Pays |
2015 | Would That This Be True |
2014 | More Likely |
2013 | Enjoyed The Desolation |
Watching Faux News | |
2012 | Speaking Of Products |
2011 | Ready To Be Immortal? |
Dance And Sing
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Faith, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, On Dancing, On God, On Singing, On Singing And Dancing, Philosophy, Quotes on December 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. | |
― Friedrich Nietzsche | |
[Or, sing… Singing would be good, too. Preferably both. — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | A Loss Of Happiness |
Early Boy Band Choreography | |
2020 | Wear A Damn Mask! |
I Can’t Stay For Long | |
Boxing (#2): First Lessons | |
2019 | A Surprisingly Good Way |
It’s Official X-mas (Tree) At Home | |
2018 | Weight / Health Update |
What’s Happening With You? | |
2017 | The Great Leveler |
Conservative Depressions | |
2016 | Election + 1 Month |
2015 | Dance And Sing |
2014 | A Measuring Stick For Progress |
2013 | Courtly Love Or Victory Over Habit |
2012 | Have We Met? |
2011 | Efficiently Useless |
Jumping Into The Dark
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Herman Wouk, On Faith, On God, Philosophy, Quotes, This Is My God on September 27, 2015| Leave a Comment »
There has never been any decisive proof either way about God’s existence. Ours would be a decidedly queer world if the Creator of it were as visible as, say, a playwright at his opening night. Here is the universe, a dazzle of orderly wonders, which seems to imply a Maker. Here is human life, full of sadness and disaster and futility, ending always in black death; and it seems to many people to refute any notion that a God could exist. To assert anything about God — that he is there or that he is not, that we can know him or that we cannot — is to jump off into the dark, either way. | |
— Herman Wouk | |
From his book: “This Is My God“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | An Impossible Situation |
I Fear It Is (For Us If Not The Planet) | |
2020 | #45 Never Shuts Up |
Walkin’ In The Rain With The One I Love | |
2019 | Silly Pooh Bear |
Dominoes Or Jenga? | |
2018 | Very Few |
2017 | Or The Candidate Who… |
2016 | The Happiest People |
2015 | Jumping Into The Dark |
2014 | I Would Be Sillier |
2013 | It Keeps Happening Anyway |
2012 | Take Time |
2011 | A Mother’s Lesson |
2010 | 3rd Pair – Shoe Review (DOA and Final) |
I Can Tell Too
Posted in Faith, Other Blogs, Quotes, tagged Anne Lamott, http://pastlifetourist.com/, On Faith, On God, On Hate, Other Blogs, Quotes on May 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do. | |
— Anne Lamott | |
[Found at one of the blogs I follow: http://pastlifetourist.com/ | |
The specific link is: http://pastlifetourist.com/2015/04/11/the-opposite-of-faith/ | |
— KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | In Hand |
2013 | No Fear |
2012 | Comic Books |
Keeping The Peace | |
2011 | You Still Have To Pay For It |
nom de plume
Posted in Faith, Humor, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Anatole France, Faith, Humor, My Journal, On Chance, On God, Philosophy, Quotes on November 30, 2014| 1 Comment »
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when he doesn’t want to sign his own name. | |
— Anatole France | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Seeking Emergence |
Walking Alone | |
2020 | 51 Days Until The Moron (#45) Is Out Of Office |
Tearing The Roof Off It | |
2019 | #Impeach45: Once A Buffoon, Now A Bad Joke |
2018 | Good Sense |
2017 | E Pluribus Unum |
2016 | Lacking |
2015 | Chip, Chip, Chip |
2014 | nom de plume |
2013 | The Real Reason |
From The Book | |
2012 | When Young |
2011 | 14 Ways To A Better Judgement |
Hard Evidence
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged My Journal, On Churches, On God, Philosophy, Quotes, Wainwright Evans on May 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismists, which is fine proof that there is a devil, but hardly evidence that there is a God. | |
— Wainwright Evans | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Full Participation |
2012 | Roving (Again) |
Ooops, Again | |
2011 | Why Not? |
In God’s Eyes
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged André Maurois, On Complaining, On God, Philosophy, Quotes, Voltaire on May 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
So, human beings complain that the world is ill-made, do they? But ill-made for whom? For Man, who, in the immense design of the Universe is no more than an unimportant mould! The probability is that everything in this world which we think is botched or erroneous has its reasons at a totally different level of existence. The mould endures, no doubt, a small amount of suffering, but somewhere there are giants who, huge in stature as in mind, live in a state of semi-divinity. This is Voltaire’s answer to the problem of evil. It is not very satisfactory because the mould need never have been created, and, in the eyes of God, it may well be that mere size is of no importance. | |
— André Maurois | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | We Root For Ourselves |
2012 | Like A Shark |
2011 | Discernible Virtue |
Not Really At All
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged http://culturemonk.com/, On Faith, On God, On Poverty, On Religion, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, Ronal Sider on May 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »
God’s Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God’s people at all — no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions. | |
— Theologian Ronal Sider | |
[Found on a blog I follow: http://culturemonk.com/ | |
The specific post is: http://culturemonk.com/2014/03/26/its-probably-why-i-used-to-be-a-stripper-really/ | |
— KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Listening And Deserving |
2012 | I’m Still Not Certain |
2011 | True, False And Useful |
Question From A Founding Father
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, History, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged History, On God, On Miracles, On Religion, Philosophy, Politics, President John Adams, President Thomas Jefferson, Quotes on April 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles. | |
— President John Adams | |
second President of the United States | |
(In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, June 20, 1815) | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Make Heroes |
2012 | See And Hold |
2011 | Am Not, Are So |
Ooops!
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Faith, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, My Journal, On God, Philosophy, Quotes on April 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? | |
-– Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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Still Inventing
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Faith, François-Marie Arouet, My Journal, On God, Philosophy, Quotes, Voltaire on April 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. | |
— Voltaire | |
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