The vast empty regions separating the faint stars suggests not so much creation from nothing, but creation of nothing—the calling into being of nonbeing.
God
A secular and a religious society are equally profane, for a secular society banishes the sacred, while a religious society defiles it with the human.
An everlasting heavenly banquet would weary us with bliss and make us wish our souls were in the coffin with our bodies.
For a fallen Marine, a heaven of harps would be hell.
Missionaries are like God's software patch to fix a faulty program.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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