We should be careful never to imagine, that the wedding-day is the burial of love, but that in reality love then begins its best l...ife; and if we set out upon that principle, and are mindful to keep it up, and give due attention and aid to the progress of love thus brought into the well ordered well sheltered garden, we may enjoy I believe as much happiness as is consistent with the imperfection of our present state of being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whe...reof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.... 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life ...so that you and your descendants may live...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now when Job's three friends heard of all these troubles that had come upon him, each of them set out from his home--Eliphaz the T...emanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to go and console and comfort him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »