Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 127.
Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 127.
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
Summations, Chapter 56
Context: God is nearer to us than our own Soul: for He is Ground in whom our Soul standeth, and He is Mean that keepeth the Substance and the Sense-nature together so that they shall never dispart. For our soul sitteth in God in very rest, and our soul standeth in God in very strength, and our Soul is kindly rooted in God in endless love: and therefore if we will have knowledge of our Soul, and communing and dalliance therewith, it behoveth to seek unto our Lord God in whom it is enclosed.
Báb (1819–1850) Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated in the Bahá'í Faith
II, 17
The Persian Bayán
“There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Part II, line 95
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
James Hamilton (1814–1867) Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 172.
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1961, UN speech
Context: Ladies and gentlemen of this Assembly, the decision is ours. Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames. Save it we can — and save it we must — and then shall we earn the eternal thanks of mankind and, as peacemakers, the eternal blessing of God.
“And God smiled again,
And the rainbow appeared,
And curled itself around his shoulder.”
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) writer and activist
The Creation, st. 7.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)
Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 555.
Alice Cary (1820–1871) American writer
"Reconciled" in A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: with some of their later poems (1875) edited by Mary Clemmer Ames, p. 182.