“It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.”
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“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
“Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.”
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Space (1912)
Context: Remember his mind and no other part of him lived in his new world. He said it gave him an odd sense of detachment to sit in a room among people, and to know that nothing there but himself had any relation at all to the infinite strange world of Space that flowed around them. He would listen, he said, to a great man talking, with one eye on the cat on the rug, thinking to himself how much more the cat knew than the man.
“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Nobody said when.”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 15 (p. 89)
“Think of God more often than thou breathest.”
Fragment xix.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
