“He like the Church he serves is blind and empty and vainglorious. This God they prattle on about, where’s His justice, where’s His compassion? Does it please Him to see dying people hounded in His name, does He snigger at His bumbling priests, is He satisfied when men drop dead chopping stone out for His temples, twisted little God dying tepid-faced on a cross…. She thought, I’ll go out and look for other gods, and maybe they’ll be better and anyway they can’t be worse.”
Fourth measure “Lords and Ladies” (p. 169)
Pavane (1968)
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“He whom the gods protect : the youth is dying whilst he is in health, and has his senses and his judgment sound.”
Quem di diligent, adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.
Bacchides Act IV, scene 7, line 18.
Variant translation: He whom the gods love dies young. (translator unknown)
Derived from Menander's The Double Deceiver; but only the Plautine version was known until the rediscovery of Menander in the 20th century; sometimes translated as "favor" instead of "love".
Bacchides (The Bacchises)
Source: The Meaning of the City (1951), pp. 4-5
“God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.”
V. 407–409 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), Ch. 13.
Source: Towing Jehovah (1994), Chapter 4, “Dirge” (p. 71)
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 84