My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Context: Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Source: The Occult: A History (1971), p. 280
Context: The real importance of Swedenborg lies in the doctrines he taught, which are the reverse of the gloom and hell-fire of other breakaway sects. He rejects the notion that Jesus died on the cross to atone for the sin of Adam, declaring that God is neither vindictive nor petty-minded, and that since he is God, he doesn't need atonement. It is remarkable that this common-sense view had never struck earlier theologians. God is Divine Goodness, and Jesus is Divine Wisdom, and Goodness has to be approached through Wisdom. Whatever one thinks about the extraordinary claims of its founder, it must be acknowledged that there is something very beautiful and healthy about the Swedenborgian religion. Its founder may have not been a great occultist, but he was a great man.
“We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.”
Source: War and Peace
“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”
Quoted on Canberra Times (February 5, 2016), "Spate of young batsmen making centuries shows Australia's batting depth improving" http://www.canberratimes.com.au/sport/cricket/spate-of-young-batsmen-making-centuries-shows-australias-batting-depth-improving-20160205-gmmvew.html
“Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.”
Source: Jayber Crow
December 7, 2009 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35296_ACORN_Review_Finds_No_Illegality/comments/
“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”
