The River Duddon, sonnet 34 - Afterthought, l. 13 (1820).
The River Duddon, sonnet 34 - Afterthought, l. 13 (1820)
Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)
“We will feel the draft blowing through the cracks in the structure of causality.”
The Following Story (1991)
“The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.”
Le plaisir de l'amour est d'aimer; et l'on est plus heureux par la passion que l'on a que par celle que l'on donne.
Maxim 259. Compare: "They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still", Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, Act ii, Scene 5.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VIII : From God to God
Context: In the vast all of the Universe, must there be this unique anomaly — a consciousness that knows itself, loves itself and feels itself, joined to an organism which can only live within such and such degrees of heat, a merely transitory phenomenon? No, it is not mere curiosity that inspires the wish to know whether or not the stars are inhabited by living organisms, by consciousness akin to our own, and a profound longing enters into that dream that our souls shall pass from star to star through the vast spaces of the heavens, in an infinite series of transmigrations. The feeling of the divine makes us wish and believe that everything is animated, that consciousness, in a greater or less degree, extends through everything. We wish not only to save ourselves, but to save the world from nothingness. And therefore God. Such is his finality as we feel it.
http://coldplaying.com/ultimate-ghost-stories-walkthrough-chris-martin/ source
BBC Reith Lectures, quoted in p. 291
The Tell-Tale Brain (2010)
