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A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question -- not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#cruelty #deism #disaster #god #jehovah

The authentic love of a man switches on the inner radiance of a woman, making her more attractive and noticed by other men. ↗

— C. Nzingha Smith

#relationship-quotes #women-s-inspirational #inspirational

Once I heard Dantly tell Welton that the Native Americans used to call that particular part of the morning “between the wolf and the dog” because the sky is so deep blue and spooky or whatever that you can’t tell what’s what. Is that a wolf on that hill or a dog? A man or a monkey? A saint or the devil? ↗

— Adam Rapp

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Time… Once it’s gone, it belongs to the past. We do not hold on to the now, and We do not treasure the future… We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late. Until it comes no more. ↗

— Michelle Horst

#books #future #inspirational #life-and-living #present

You are a guest of nature - behave. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#earth #inspiration #respect #sustainable-living #inspirational

Lord, thank you for the people who care more about me than about their schedules. ↗

— Shirley Corder

#inspirational #thanks #inspirational

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject? ↗

— Slash Coleman

#inspirational #life #memoir #self-help #stories

There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define. ↗

— Thomas B Dowd

#inspiration #inspirational #moments #inspirational

The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs! ↗

— Dew Platt

#inspirational-quotes #life #philosophical #inspirational

In-existence, the soul’s greatest imposition is its perfection. It is projected as a perfected form of the physical embodiment, an emblem of things, perhaps hyperreal and untouchably perfect as existence. It can not be! The soul in-existence is nothing of perfection. It is raw potential. The soul is nothing but potential. To be specific, the soul is unordered potential! ↗

— Dew Platt

#inspirational-quotes #soul #inspirational