
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 223
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
Love is Enough (1872), Song VI: Cherish Life that Abideth
Context: Love is enough: cherish life that abideth,
Lest ye die ere ye know him, and curse and misname him;
For who knows in what ruin of all hope he hideth,
On what wings of the terror of darkness he rideth?
And what is the joy of man's life that ye blame him
For his bliss grown a sword, and his rest grown a fire?
Ignorance of Death
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XXIII - Death
ibn Hazm's style of ending a work, in Salim al-Hassani, Ibn Hazm’s Philosophy and Thoughts on Science https://muslimheritage.com/ibn-hazm-philosophy-and-science/#_ftnref23
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 127
“As in the eye of Nature he has lived,
So in the eye of Nature let him die!”
The Old Cumberland Beggar.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He may let go of God, but God does not let go of him.”
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Paraphrased variant: Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God … but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1998) by James Beasley Simpson.
Church Dogmatics (1932–1968)
Context: Man can certainly keep on lying (and he does so); but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel (he does so); but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God. He can certainly flee from God (he does so); but he cannot escape Him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God (he does and is so); but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in His hate. He can certainly give himself to isolation (he does so — he thinks, wills and behaves godlessly, and is godless); but even in his isolation he must demonstrate that which he wishes to controvert — the impossibility of playing the "individual" over against God. He may let go of God, but God does not let go of him.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 180.