"I believe in God and in His wisdom and benevolence and I cannot conceive that such a Being could make such a species as the human merely to live and die on this earth. If I did not believe in a future state, I should believe in no God. This universe, this all, this totality would appear with all its swelling pomp, a boyish firework." John Adams, (1735–1826), 2nd president of the US 1797–1801.
"I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too." Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (1906–45), German Lutheran theologian and pastor. He was an active opponent of Nazism and was involved in the German resistance movement. Arrested in 1943, he was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp and later executed.
"“If the Father deigns to touch with divine power the cold pulseless heart of the buried acorn and to make it burst forth from its prison walls will He leave neglected in the earth the soul of man made in the image of the Creator? If he stops to give the rosebush, whose withered blossoms float upon the summer breezes the sweet assurance of another springtime, will He refuse the words of hope to the sons of of men when the frosts of winter come?
“If matter, mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of nature into the multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit like a royal guest to this tenement of clay? No! I am sure that there is another life as that I live today.”" William Jennings Bryan - William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American lawyer, orator, and politician. He was a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections. He served in the House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895 and as the Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1915. Because of his faith in the wisdom of the common people, Bryan was often called "the Great Commoner",[1] and because of his rhetorical power and early fame as the youngest presidential candidate, "the Boy Orator".
In "the whole of world history there is always only one really significant hour - the present . . . if you want to find eternity, you must serve the times." Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (1906–45), German Lutheran theologian and pastor. He was an active opponent of Nazism and was involved in the German resistance movement. Arrested in 1943, he was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp and later executed.
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