Beautiful place Quote by Frank Schaeffer

“And that in this backsliding day, we might not spend our breath in fruitless complaints of the evils of others; but may everyone begin…

— Various

“There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery,…

— Henry Fielding

“Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?”

— Joseph Conrad

“All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its contingency.”

— Jacques Monod

“Let me say first of all that the grace of God is sufficient to any transgression, and that to judge is wrong, the origin…

— Marilynne Robinson

“For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any…

— St. Paul

“The true essence of who you are, balances itself upon a cushion of purity, benevolence, and holiness.”

— Gary Gordon

“A person does not, as I had imagined, stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions…

— Marcel Proust

“The seeming imperfections of Earth, the hazards and inequalities of life, the cruelty, harshness and apparent indifference to suffering and affliction are not what…

— Kolbrin BIble

“nothing proving or sick or partial. Nothing false,nothing difficult or easy or small or colossal. Nothing ordinary or extraordinary,nothing emptied or filled,real or unreal;nothing…

— E. E. Cummings

“This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two.”

— Joanna Brooks

“the flame of belief is fueled inexhaustibly by the fears of death, oblivion, and meaninglessness. Where”

— Irvin D. Yalom