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#catastrophe

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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.


Ernest Dimnet


#catastrophes #destructive #errors #fatal #great

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'


Tony Campolo


#catastrophe #died #god #inevitably #people

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.


Leonard Cohen


#clinical #conversations #days #depression #finds

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.


Rosalia de Castro


#breakthroughs #catastrophes #followed #great

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.


David Icke


#being used #catastrophe #complete #destruction #energies

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.


William Irwin Thompson


#catastrophe #catastrophes #domain #embodied #emergence

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.


H. G. Wells


#becomes #between #catastrophe #education #human

History is a race between education and catastrophe.


H. G. Wells


#catastrophe #education #history #race

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.


Cornel West


#brown #catastrophe #complex #discourse #ghettos

When a soul in sin, under the impetus of grace, turns to God, there is penance; but when a soul in sin refuses to change, God sends chastisement. This chastisement need not be external, and certainly it is never arbitrary; it comes as an inevitable result of breaking God’s moral law. But the entrenched forces of the modern world are irrational, men nowadays do not always interpret disasters as the moral events they are. When calamity strikes the flint of human hearts, sparks of sacred fire are kindled and men will normally begin to make an estimate of their true worth. In previous ages this was usual: a disordered individual could find his way back to peace because he lived in an objective world inspired by Christian order. But the frustrated man of today, having lost his faith in God, living as he does, in a disordered chaotic world, has no beacon to guide him. In times of trouble he sometimes turns in upon himself, like a serpent devouring its own tail. Given such a man, who worships the false trinity of (1) his own pride, which acknowledges no law; (2) his own sensuality, which makes earthly comfort it goal; (3) his license, which interprets liberty as the absences of all restraint and law—then a cancer is created which is impossible to cure except through an operation or calamity unmistakable as God’s action in history. It is always through sweat and blood and tears that the soul is purged of its animal egotism and laid open to the Spirit … Catastrophe can be to a world that has forgotten God what a sickness can be to a sinner; in the midst of it millions might be brought not to a voluntary, but to an enforced crisis. Such a calamity would put an end to Godlessness and make vast numbers of men, who might otherwise lose their souls, turn to God.


Fulton J. Sheen


#suffering #age






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