#god

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#behold #brave #brave man #conflict #direct

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#after #appetites #envied #fit #found

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#because #brought #cause #did #extent

Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God. ↗

— Bruce Shelley

#christianity #event #god #humiliation #major

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#again #answer #anyway #asked #bear

Man's extremity is God's opportunity. ↗

— John Flavel

#god #man #opportunity

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#i #i think #judging #judgment #nasty

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#constitute #form #forms #god #government

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#friends #god #grave #know #lay

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

#because #before #beings #belief #better