It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the paradox of love and faith, suggesting that genuine belief shouldn't lead to intolerance or aggression.
August Strindberg's quote highlights the conflict that can arise between professed faith in God and the emotions of hatred and aggression that sometimes accompany discussions about love and spirituality. It challenges the notion that true faith should inspire kindness and compassion, rather than evoking hostility, indicating a disconnect between one's proclaimed beliefs and their emotional responses.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions or debates about the true nature of faith and its implications on human behavior.
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That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.
I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance:_x000D_ _x000D_ Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.
Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.
It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.
The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.
The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.
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