
Of his father
Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever (1976)
Of his father
Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever (1976)
“Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.”
Doctorate Award Speech, Kean University (2004)
Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter III, Part 12, The Deepening Confusion, p. 170
On himself and his contemporaries.
Paris Review interview (1958)
Summations, Chapter 48
Context: Our good Lord the Holy Ghost, which is endless life dwelling in our soul, full securely keepeth us; and worketh therein a peace and bringeth it to ease by grace, and accordeth it to God and maketh it pliant. And this is the mercy and the way that our Lord continually leadeth us in as long as we be here in this life which is changeable.
For I saw no wrath but on man’s part; and that forgiveth He in us. For wrath is not else but a forwardness and a contrariness to peace and love; and either it cometh of failing of might, or of failing of wisdom, or of failing of goodness: which failing is not in God, but is on our part. For we by sin and wretchedness have in us a wretched and continuant contrariness to peace and to love. And that shewed He full often in His lovely Regard of Ruth and Pity. For the ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was shewed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy but as it were alone in love; that is to say, as to my sight.
“But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.”
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 37
Context: This shewed our Lord in the wholeness of love that we stand in, in His sight: yea, that He loveth us now as well while we are here, as He shall do while we are there afore His blessed face. But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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“For us, it is all right if the talks succeed, and it is all right if they fail.”
On President Richard Nixon’s visit to China (5 October 1971), as quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) edited by James Beasley Simpson.