#482
The Furrow (1986)
A Glance Behind the Curtain (1843)
(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 10).
“God bless the man who first invented sleep!”
So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.
"Early Rising".
“Blessings come from a generous heart. Those who give are the most blessed.”
Sydney, (9 June 2011)[citation needed].
XVIII. Why there are rejections of God, and that God is not injured.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
The World's Age, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 117
Religious-based Quotes
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
Context: If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
I would also want a God who would not allow a Hell. Infinite torture can only be a punishment for infinite evil, and I don't believe that infinite evil can be said to exist even in the case of Hitler. Besides, if most human governments are civilized enough to try to eliminate torture and outlaw cruel and unusual punishments, can we expect anything less of an all-merciful God?
I feel that if there were an afterlife, punishment for evil would be reasonable and of a fixed term. And I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.
“Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.”
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 29.
