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Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The Danish philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard believed that boredom was the root of all evil. In other words, boredom isn't just boring. It's wrong. You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time. If you follow in the footsteps of Jesus, it will be anything but boring.
- Mark Batterson
Soren Kierkegaard believed that boredom is the root of all evil. I second the notion. Boredom isn't just boring; boredom is wrong. You cannot simultaneously live by faith and be bored. Faith and boredom are antithetical.
- Mark Batterson
Albert Einstein said it best: "Science without religion is lame, and conversely, religion without science is blind.
- Mark Batterson
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
- Mark Twain
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
- Mark Twain
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.
- Mark Twain
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.