Age Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

“For if in careless summer days In groves of Ashtaroth we whored, Repentant now, when winds blow cold, We kneel before our rightful lord;…

— George Orwell

“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth…

— Edward Clodd

“In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs,…

— Emil Cioran

“The God who is ever uttering himself in the changeful profusions of nature; who takes millions of years to form a soul that shall…

— George MacDonald

“WHERE ONCE THE WATERS ON YOUR FACE Where once the waters of your face Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows, The dead…

— Dylan Thomas

In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world, but under…

— Edward Thomson

“One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We…

— Okakura Kakuzo

“The wise man has struggled to find You in his wisdom, and he has failed. The just man has striven to grasp You in…

— Thomas Merton

This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is an age lurching along the lip of a dark precipice, peeking fearfully into chaos's empty eyes, enrapt, like a giddy rat trying…

— Glen Cook

“He was pierced and scourged and mocked. He was cursed and raised up on a tree, but He was in that ancient pose of…

— N.D. Wilson

“He has forgotten how to hope. This hell of the present is his Kingdom at last. All problems recover their sharp edge. Abstract evidence…

— Albert Camus