“It is a strange thing how the pain of seeing the suffering of those we love will sometimes make us add to their suffering by being cross with them. This comes of not having faith enough in God, and shows how necessary this faith is, for when we lose it, we lose even the kindness which alone can soothe the suffering.”
George MacDonald At the Back of the North Wind
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” not further attributed in Epoch Times email newsletter November 26, 2021.
“No man was ever wise by chance”
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” (not further attributed) in Epoch Times email December 6, 2021
“The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that the key insight into any society in any age is had by inquiring into what people didn’t write about; because that is what those people, in that age, simply took for granted.”
William F. Buckley Jr. in National Review January 24, 2000
“The examined life is no great shakes either”.
Another from me, on December 10 2021, prompted by entering the April 1 Socrates quotation into the relevant digital file
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates, quoted in Neil Postman Building a Bridge to the 18th Century (and about 10 million other places)
“something has to be overcome before we can cut up a dead man or a live animal in a dissecting room…. We do not look at trees either as Dryads or as beautiful objects while we cut them into beams: the first man who did so may have felt the price keenly, and the bleeding trees in Virgil and Spenser may be far-off echoes of that primeval sense of impiety. The stars lost their divinity as astronomy developed, and the Dying God has no place in chemical agriculture.”
C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man
“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. And to be steady on all the battle fields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”
Martin Luther, quoted among many other places by https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/657155-if-i-profess-with-the-loudest-voice-and-clearest-exposition