Sentences with phrase «impossible benevolence»

Despite the doubt and forked ambivalence, Approach, avoid, ignore, yet hope to shareIn some impossible benevolence, To care and not to care my muted prayer; Despite the years of practiced lassitude, And fearful of the all - consuming dare, Adrift, unmoored, bereft of gratitude, Consumed, perplexed, and....

Despite the doubt and forked ambivalence, Approach, avoid, ignore, yet hope to share In some impossible benevolence, To care and not to care my muted prayer; Despite the years of practiced lassitude, And fearful of the all - consuming dare, Adrift, unmoored, bereft of gratitude, Consumed, perplexed, and wondering how I'll fare — When of a sudden you greet me as a guest Within the great Unknowing Cloud, the why Forgotten.

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12 He wrote of «the impossible problem of reconciling infinite benevolence and justice with infinite power in the Creator of such a world as this,» 13 and concluded: «the notion of a providential government by an omnipotent Being for the good of his creatures must be entirely dismissed.»

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to Him by His biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others, again, of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same Being.

He would always leave it to the benevolence of the Legislature, for, modify it as you please, it will be impossible to express it in such a manner as to clear it from ambiguity.