Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Interpretation
No matter how deep the sadness, there is always hope and healing.
This quote by Thomas Moore suggests that regardless of the pain and suffering experienced in life, there is always a remedy or solace found in a higher power or spiritual belief. It emphasizes the idea that even the most profound sorrows can be alleviated, reflecting the belief in healing and redemption beyond earthly troubles.
In practice
In a speech at a memorial service, one might say, 'Remember, Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.'
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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