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“but where is the use of saying what might have been, when all things are ever moving towards the highest and best for the individual as well as for the universe! —not the less that hell may be the only path to it for some—the hell of an absolute self-loathing.”
― Warlock o' Glenwarlock
― Warlock o' Glenwarlock
“Winna ye be gaein' awa', to write buiks, an' gar fowk fin' oot what's the maitter wi' them?”
― Warlock o' Glenwarlock
― Warlock o' Glenwarlock
“In after years when he remembered the enchanting dreams of his boyhood, instead of sighing after them as something gone for ever, he would say to himself, "what matter they are gone? In the heavenly kingdom my own mother is waiting me, fairer and stronger and real. I imagined the elves; God imagined my mother.”
― Warlock o' Glenwarlock
― Warlock o' Glenwarlock
“Of all teachings that which presents a far distant God is the nearest to absurdity. Either there is none, or he is nearer to every one of us than our nearest consciousness of self. An unapproachable divinity is the veriest of monsters, the most horrible of human imaginations.”
― Sir Gibbie
― Sir Gibbie
“There is no forgetting of ourselves but in the finding of our deeper, our true self—God's idea of us when he devised us—the Christ in us. Nothing but that self can displace the false, greedy, whining self, of which, most of us are so fond and proud. And that self no man can find for himself; seeing of himself he does not even know what to search for. "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God.”
― Sir Gibbie
― Sir Gibbie
Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction
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