“It makes a tremendous emotional and practical
difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way
of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of
Christian saints.”— American
philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910), The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902)Sunday, July 22, 2018
Quote of the Day (William James, on the ‘Passionate Happiness of Christian Saints’)
“It makes a tremendous emotional and practical
difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way
of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of
Christian saints.”— American
philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910), The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902)
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