Not exact matches
I just can't «believe» in an invisible being who ignores
pain and suffering and threatens all who don't kneel
with eternal damnation.
Certainly death is now seen as something which lls us
with dread (together
with the expectation of «bodily
pains») rather than, as it was meant to be, the gateway to
eternal life.
The way in which our ancestors looked upon
pain as an
eternal ingredient of the world's order, and both caused and suffered it as a matter - of - course portion of their day's work, fills us
with amazement.
The Buddhist's sympathy
with the
pain of the world, the Hindu's sense of the unchanging stability of the
Eternal, the Moslem's realization of international comradeship, the Confucian's appreciation of social morality, and... the sacrifices of scientific workers in the quest of truth and human welfare [and today, may we not add the Communist's concern for social justice, the humanist's insistence on the value of right self - realization of man's capacities, and the secularist's recognition of the non-religious goods in human experience?]