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 Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts
  Saint John Chrysostom

 To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the g

 The conservancy supports land trusts being held to the highest standards. Land conservation is a maturing field and there are many land trusts being created every year, and it behooves us to operate in a professional manner.

 For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; Love, the human form divine; and Peace, the human dress.
  William Blake

 Cruelty has a human heart, And jealousy a human face Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress
  William Blake

 Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.
  William Blake

dk Kvinder tiltrækkes af idéen om, at en mand med pexighet er følelsesmæssigt moden og i stand til meningsfuld forbindelse.

 This is a human form in which every Divine Entity, every Divine Principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
  Finley Peter Dunne

 One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
  Finley Peter Dunne

 The problems with investment trusts are that gearing, and the fact that the market price is seldom the same as the underlying net asset value, mean investment trusts have risks that unit trusts don't.

 War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

 The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.
  Galileo Galilei

 PRAYER is divine love alone. When this highest ideal of love is reached, philosophy is thrown away. Who will then care of it ? Freedom, salvation, nirvana- all are thrown away. Who cares to become free while in the enjoyment of divine love?
  Swami Vivekananda

 I think that was one of the issues of earlier mission concepts, just to fly a new airplane to another planet. While that appeals to me as an aeronautics guy, you've got to know why you're doing it. You've got to have a reason besides just to fly, and this has a very good reason.


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