
„Láska je spojení rozjímání a činů, je vláknem spojujícím nebe se zemí, člověka s bohem.“
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
Kontext: And truly, I reiterate,.. nothing's small!
No lily-muffled hum of a summer-bee,
But finds some coupling with the spinning stars;
No pebble at your foot, but proves a sphere;
No chaffinch, but implies the cherubim:
And, — glancing on my own thin, veined wrist, —
In such a little tremour of the blood
The whole strong clamour of a vehement soul
Doth utter itself distinct. Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God:
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries,
And daub their natural faces unaware
More and more, from the first similitude.
Bk. VII, l. 812-826.
„Láska je spojení rozjímání a činů, je vláknem spojujícím nebe se zemí, člověka s bohem.“
Originál: (en) There is a great deal of difference between the desires of Heaven in a sanctified man and an unsanctified. The believer prizeth it above earth, and had rather be with God then here. (…) But to the ungodly there is nothing seemeth more desirable then this world: and therefore he only chooseth heaven before hell, but not before earth; and therefore shall not have it upon such a choice.
Zdroj: [Baxter, Richard, William Orme, VIII, The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme, https://books.google.cz/books?id=SG0_AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, James Duncan, London, 1830, 533, 169, angličtina]
„Každý chce za každou cenu být nevinný, i kdyby proto musel obžalovat nebe i zemi.“
„Náboženství je jako pár bot ... Najděte ty, které vám sedí, ale nenuťte mě nosit vaše.“
„Stále mám nohy na zemi, nosím jen lepší boty.“
„Každé místo má své výhody - nebe klima a peklo společnost.“