Julia Ward Howe quotes - page 2

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature. (Julia Ward Howe)
How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society. View quote
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What is the harvest of thy saints, O God! who dost abide? View quote
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Let us then willingly take the Eternal with us in our flight among the suns and stars. Experience is our great teacher, and on this point it is wholly wanting. View quote
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Our spiritual life appears to include three terms in one. They are ever with us, this Past which does not pass, this Future which never arrives. They are part and parcel of this conscious existence which we call Present. View quote
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The victory of goodness must be complete. View quote
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What is it that passes for religion? In some countries magic passes for religion, and that is one thing I wish, in view particularly of the ethnic faiths, could be made very prominent- that religion is not magic. View quote
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I feel that I must attack this creed of blood, which does much to keep up the cruel and sanguinary views of barbarous ages about God and man. View quote
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This power of remotest question and assent is not of to-day nor yesterday. It transcends all bounds of time and space. View quote
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Have we lost our God ? Never for one moment. View quote
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Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion. (Julia Ward Howe)
I went to bed that night as usual, and slept, according to my wont, quite soundly. I awoke in the gray of the morning twilight; and as I lay waiting for the dawn, the long lines of the desired poem began to twine themselves in my mind. View quote
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There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being able to make a sacrifice. View quote
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The reason which placed the stars, the sense of proportion which we recognize in the planetary system, finds its correspondence in this brain of ours. View quote
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I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another. Religion is primarily our relation to the Supreme, to God himself. It is for him to judge; it is for him to say where we belong, who is highest and who is not; of that we know nothing. And any religion which will sacrifice a certain set of human beings for the enjoyment or aggrandizement or advantage of another is no religion. View quote
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I only hope you may be able not only to listen, but also to hear me. Your charity must multiply my small voice and do some such miracle as was done when the loaves and fishes fed the multitude. View quote
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From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." Blood does not wipe our dishonor, Nor violence indicate possession. View quote
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I go back to that great Spirit which contemplated a sacrifice for the whole of humanity. That sacrifice is not one of exclusion, but of an infinite and endless and joyous inclusion. And I thank God for it. View quote
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On the boundless sea of conjecture we are still afloat, with such mental tools as we possess to guide us, with the skies, the stars, the seasons, seeking a harbor from which no voyager has ever returned. View quote
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Life passes, but the conditions of life do not. View quote
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To me has been granted a somewhat unusual experience of life. (Julia Ward Howe)
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat. View quote
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Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy. View quote
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While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear? View quote
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I never could be good when I was not happy. View quote
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