Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
Source: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Reconstruction_of_Religious_Thought/uCh14nl09jkC?hl=en (1930), p. 14
James Anthony Froude book The Nemesis of Faith
Letter III
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: The Mahometans say their Koran was written by God. The Hindoos say the Vedas were; we say the Bible was, and we are but interested witnesses in deciding absolutely and exclusively for ourselves. If it be immeasurably the highest of the three, it is because it is not the most divine but the most human. It does not differ from them in kind; and it seems to me that in ascribing it to God we are doing a double dishonour; to ourselves for want of faith in our soul's strength, and to God in making Him responsible for our weakness. There is nothing in it but what men might have written; much, oh much, which it would drive me mad to think any but men, and most mistaken men, had written. Yet still, as a whole, it is by far the noblest collection of sacred books in the world; the outpouring of the mind of a people in whom a larger share of God's spirit was for many centuries working than in any other of mankind, or who at least most clearly caught and carried home to themselves the idea of the direct and immediate dependence of the world upon Him. It is so good that as men looked at it they said this is too good for man: nothing but the inspiration of God could have given this. Likely enough men should say so; but what might be admired as a metaphor became petrified into a doctrine, and perhaps the world has never witnessed any more grotesque idol-worship than what has resulted from it in modern Bibliolatry. And yet they say we are not Christians, we cannot be religious teachers, nay, we are without religion, we are infidels, unless we believe with them. We have not yet found the liberty with which Christ has made us free. Infidels, Arthur! Ah, it is a hard word! The only infidelity I know is to distrust God, to distrust his care of us, his love for us. And yet that word! How words cling to us, and like an accursed spell force us to become what they say we have become.
“If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract the price from others.”
Parker Palmer (1939) American theologian
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)
Charles Péguy (1873–1914) French poet, essayist, and editor
Source: Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943), p. 51
Pasquier Quesnel (1634–1719) French theologian
44th Proposition, as translated by Mary Ilford in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1968), pp. 118-119
“God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels.”
Mohammed Omar (1959–2013) Founder and former leader of the Taliban
Mullah Omar - in his own words http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,558076,00.html September 2001.
“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
Jorge Luis Borges book Other Inquisitions
El original es infiel a la traducción.
Jorge Luis Borges "Sobre el Vathek de William Beckford" (1943), in Otras inquisiciones: 1937-1952 (Buenos Aires: Sur, 1952) p. 163; "About William Beckford's Vathek", in Ruth L. C. Simms (trans.) Other Inquisitions: 1937-1952 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964) p. 140.
On Henley's translation of Vathek.
Dayanand Saraswati (1824–1883) founder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement
"Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Volume 19, Issue 1", p. 73
Thomas Müntzer (1489–1525) early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader during the German Peasants' War
"A Protest about the Condition of the Bohemians," p. 5
Wu Ming Presents Thomas Müntzer, Sermon to the Princes