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A quotation from Ingersoll

For me, it is hard to see the plan or design in earthquakes and pestilences. It is somewhat difficult to discern the design or the benevolence in so making the world that billions of animals live only on the agonies of others. The justice of God is not visible to me in the history of this world. When I think of the suffering and death, of the poverty and crime, of the cruelty and malice, of the heartlessness of this “design” and “plan,” where beak and claw and tooth tear and rend the quivering flesh of weakness and despair, I cannot convince myself that it is the result of infinite wisdom, benevolence, and justice.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Essay (1881-11) “The Christian Religion,” “Part 2” North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 300

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Ingersoll, Robert Green - Essay (1881-11) "The Christian Religion," "Part 2" North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 300 | WIST Quotations

For me, it is hard to see the plan or design in earthquakes and pestilences. It is somewhat difficult to discern the design or the benevolence in so making the world that billions of animals live only on the agonies of others. The justice of God is not visible to…

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Sofia JadeMay 5

In every line of poetry, God’s sovereignty shines—reminding us that no moment is random, no struggle unseen. Through faith-filled words, we’re invited to trust His divine plan, where His power, grace, and purpose reign over all things.

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Dangerous Prayer GlobalApr 23

Your Timing Is Preserved in God

🔥 You are not late—your timing is preserved in God. This midnight prayer helps you rest in His perfect plan. Click to pray and settle your heart tonight. #PastorWoleAdenubi #DPFireStreams #DangerousPrayer #MidnightPrayer #GodsTiming #TrustGod #FaithWalk #DivinePlan #StayAtPeace #WalkWithGod

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Your Timing Is Preserved in God

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Dangerous Prayer GlobalApr 23

God Is Making Things Work Together for You

🔥 What looks scattered is being arranged. This prayer helps you trust and step into God’s divine alignment today. Click to pray and walk in confidence now. #PastorWoleAdenubi #DPFireStreams #DangerousPrayer #MorningFire #AllThingsWorkTogether #TrustGod #FaithWalk #DivinePlan #NoConfusion #WalkInFaith

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God Is Making Things Work Together for You

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WIST QuotationsMar 27

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

The doctrine of eternal pain is my trouble with this Christian religion. I reject it on account of its infinite heartlessness.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1884-01-20), “Orthodoxy,” Tabor Opera House, Denver, Colorado

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Ingersoll, Robert Green - Lecture (1884-01-20), "Orthodoxy," Tabor Opera House, Denver, Colorado | WIST Quotations

The doctrine of eternal pain is my trouble with this Christian religion. I reject it on account of its infinite heartlessness. Published as its own book in 1884. See Dante (1309).

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WIST QuotationsMar 3

A quotation from Emerson

Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essay (1841), "Self-Reliance," Essays: First Series, No. 2 | WIST Quotations

Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God. This essay was inspired by his reading of Walter Savage Landor in 1833, with passages pulled from his lecture "Individualism," last in his course on "The Philosophy of History" (1836–1837), with other passages from the lectures "School," "Genius," and "Duty" in his course…

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WIST QuotationsFeb 14

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

In his infinite goodness, God invented rheumatism and gout and dyspepsia, cancers and neuralgia, and is still inventing new diseases. Not only this, but he decreed the pangs of mothers, and that by the gates of love and life should crouch the dragons of death and pain. Fearing that some might, by accident, live too long, he planted poisonous vines and herbs that looked like food. He caught the serpents he had made and gave them fangs and curious organs, ingeniously devised to distill and deposit the deadly drop. He changed the nature of the beasts, that they might feed on human flesh. He cursed a world, and tainted every spring and source of joy. He poisoned every breath of air; corrupted even light, that it might bear disease on every ray; tainted every drop of blood in human veins; touched every nerve, that it might bear the double fruit of pain and joy; decreed all accidents and mistakes that maim and hurt and kill, and set the snares of life-long grief, baited with present pleasure, — with a moment’s joy. Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears. And yet all this is but the prelude, the introduction, to the infinite revenge of the good God. Increase and multiply all human griefs until the mind has reached imagination’s farthest verge, then add eternity to time, and you may faintly tell, but never can conceive, the infinite horrors of this doctrine called “The Fall of Man.”

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1884-01-20), “Orthodoxy,” Tabor Opera House, Denver, Colorado

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Ingersoll, Robert Green - Lecture (1884-01-20), "Orthodoxy," Tabor Opera House, Denver, Colorado | WIST Quotations

In his infinite goodness, God invented rheumatism and gout and dyspepsia, cancers and neuralgia, and is still inventing new diseases. Not only this, but he decreed the pangs of mothers, and that by the gates of love and life should crouch the dragons of death and pain. Fearing that some…

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Carmelite QuotesJan 15

Quote of the day, 16 January: Blessed Maria Candida

In everything, even in the simple things of my childhood, of my life, in every circumstance, I glimpse the love, the vigilance, the protection, and the tenderness of a merciful, jealous, munificent God and Spouse!

For me, nothing happens by chance. My birth, my name, my family, the circumstances of my every age, my upbringing: everything makes me see a wave of grace and the loving purposes of my God.

Everything, everything, gives me a glimpse of the immense gifts bestowed by my God for me.

Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist

The immense tenderness of God

Note: Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist was born on 16 January 1884 to Pietro Barba and Giovanna Florona in Catanzaro (Calabria), Italy.

Maria Candida, Andreini, A & Mezzasalma, C 2014, Il Canto Sulla Montagna : Scritti Spirituali Della Maturità (1926-1930), Edizioni OCD, Roma.

Translation from the Italian text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Blessed Maria Candida is featured in this 1940s-era photo. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites (By permission)

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WIST QuotationsJan 12

A quotation from Victor Hugo

Progress is the stride of God.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
(Attributed)

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Hugo, Victor - (Attributed) | WIST Quotations

Progress is the stride of God. Widely attributed to Hugo, but I cannot find a primary source for it. In a few places it is cited to his William Shakespeare (1864), but not in the two English translations I could find for it, nor could I identify it in the…

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WIST QuotationsJan 3

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

   A devout clergyman sought every opportunity to impress upon the mind of his son the fact, that God takes care of all his creatures; that the falling sparrow attracts his attention, and that his loving kindness is over all his works.
   Happening, one day, to see a crane wading in quest of food, the good man pointed out to his son the perfect adaptation of the crane to get his living in that manner. “See,” said he, “how his legs are formed for wading! What a long slender bill he has! Observe how nicely he folds his feet when putting them in or drawing them out of the water! He does not cause the slightest ripple. He is thus enabled to approach the fish without giving them any notice of his arrival.”
   “My son,” said he, “it is impossible to look at that bird without recognizing the design, as well as the goodness of God, in thus providing the means of subsistence.”
   “Yes,” replied the boy, “I think I see the goodness of God, at least so far as the crane is concerned; but after all, father, don’t you think the arrangement a little tough on the fish?”

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

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A devout clergyman sought every opportunity to impress upon the mind of his son the fact, that God takes care of all his creatures; that the falling sparrow attracts his attention, and that his loving kindness is over all his works. Happening, one day, to see a crane wading in…

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