The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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