Joe Hill
(1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
“There is no God, no man-made God; a bigger, stronger, crueller man;
Black phantom of our baby-fears, ere Thought, the life of Life, began.”
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
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British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, … 1821–1890Related quotes
“I am as free as Nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began”
Part 1, Act I, scene i.
The Conquest of Granada (1669-1670)
Context: I am as free as Nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
“For the glory of God is the living man, and the life of man is the vision of God.”
Gloria enim Dei vivens homo, vita autem hominis visio Dei.
Irenaeus
(130–202) Bishop and saint
Book 4, Chapter 34, Section 7 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101074938968;view=1up;seq=231.
Often mistranslated as "The glory of God is man fully alive" (see http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=25-05-003-e).
The context of the passage https://web.archive.org/web/20170126222027/http://earlychurchtexts.com/public/irenaeus_glory_of_god_humanity_alive.htm is: "And for this reason did the Word become the dispenser of the paternal grace for the benefit of men, for whom He made such great dispensations, revealing God indeed to men, but presenting man to God, and preserving at the same time the invisibility of the Father, lest man should at any time become a despiser of God, and that he should always possess something towards which he might advance; but, on the other hand, revealing God to men through many dispensations, lest man, falling away from God altogether, should cease to exist. For the glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God. For if the manifestation of God which is made by means of the creation, affords life to all living in the earth, much more does that revelation of the Father which comes through the Word, give life to those who see God."
Against Heresies
P. W. Botha
(1916–2006) South African prime minister
Addressing the Transvaal NP Congress on 18 September 1979, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 25
“LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE – DESIRE = GOD.”
Sathya Sai Baba
(1926–2011) Indian guru
Interview with R.K. Karanjia for Blitz magazine (1976)
Charles Lindbergh
(1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
As quoted in Reader's Digest (July 1972)
“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”
Remembrance Rock (1948), Ch. 2, p. 7
Context: A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. A book that does nothing to you is dead. A baby, whether it does anything to you, represents life. If a bad fire should break out in this house and I had my choice of saving the library or the babies, I would save what is alive. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo plants, don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devices and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable. A baby is very modern. Yet it is also the oldest of the ancients. A baby doesn't know he is a hoary and venerable antique — but he is. Before man learned how to make an alphabet, how to make a wheel, how to make a fire, he knew how to make a baby — with the great help of woman, and his God and Maker.
