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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
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Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
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Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.
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For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain
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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
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I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.
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We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.
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By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.
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There’s something about pleasure I find annoying.
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Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.
