“The daily sight of her is going to be a torment, like God torturing Moses with a glimpse of Zion from the top of Mount Pisgah every single day of his life.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 306.

Transhumanism (1957)
Context: The first thing that the human species has to do to prepare itself for the cosmic office to which it finds itself appointed is to explore human nature, to find out what are the possibilities open to it (including, of course, its limitations, whether inherent or imposed by the facts of external nature)... The great men of the past have given us glimpses of what is possible in the way of personality, of intellectual understanding, of spiritual achievement, of artistic creation. But these are scarcely more than Pisgah glimpses. We need to explore and map the whole realm of human possibility, as the realm of physical geography has been explored and mapped. How to create new possibilities for ordinary living? What can be done to bring out the latent capacities of the ordinary man and woman for understanding and enjoyment; to teach people the techniques of achieving spiritual experience (after all, one can acquire the technique of dancing or tennis, so why not of mystical ecstasy or spiritual peace?); to develop native talent and intelligence in the growing child, Instead of frustrating or distorting them?

Chick tracts, " Doom Town http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0273/0273_01.asp" (1991)

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

homily at the celebration of the Mass to mark the Golden Jubilee anniversary of Dei Verbum https://cnsng.org/makepdf.php?tab=1365 (November 23, 2015)

On the Chinese Communist Party case against him http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-31018617 (24 July 2012)

No. 76, preached to the Earl of Carlisle, c. autumn 1622
LXXX Sermons (1640)

Variant: Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story