"One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship…" — John Cowper Powys

"One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth."

— John Cowper Powys

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15 Quotes by John Cowper Powys

John Cowper Powys has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky,…
Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget…
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads…
If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how…
Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity…
The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a…
To a real child anything will serve as a toy.
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island…
Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

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More Earth Quotes

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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