In my return to church, I had learned the hard way to avoid assumptions about other people's faith. For one thing, people kept surprising me. If I listened carefully to them, my conjectures about what they thought usually turned out to be wrong. For another thing, I was insecure enough about my own faith, such as it was, to resent other people telling me what they thought I believed and why they thought I believed it. So I tried to hear what my friends say about joining their loved ones after death without assuming I knew exactly what they meant. Margaret D. McGee
About This Quote

This quotation is usually stated as “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” which is the exact opposite of the quote stated above. This quote was written by Edith Stein, a Jewish convert to Catholicism. She was born in Stuttgart, Germany and died at Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Her family fled to France after Kristallnacht (the night of broken glass) and eventually to the United States where she enrolled in Mount St.

Scholastica College. She graduated with honors and earned a doctorate in philosophy. She later returned to her native Germany and became a member of the Dominican order of nuns. In 1938, she received a professorship at the University of Heidelberg and founded a philosophical journal called Theologische Literaturzeitung (Theological Literature Review).

This journal was discontinued after six years due to Nazi persecution of Jews and she left Germany on October 19, 1939 with the help of Franziska Scholl and Sophie Scholl including her sisters. In December 1941, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission by bombarding uranium with neutrons. German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann did so on December 2, 1944 and March 18, 1945 respectively and this discovery opened up the possibility of an atomic bomb. On August 24, 1944, more than 400 allied bombers dropped 869 tons of bombs on Dresden killing 30,000 people in one night. On January 27, 1945 British warplanes dropped more than 3,900 tons of bombs on Hamburg killing 45,000 people in just one night.

On February 13-14th the British dropped more than 1,700 tons on Tokyo killing 100,000 people in one night while destroying 50% of all buildings within an area covering nearly three square miles. After World War II ended in 1945 over 60 million people had been killed with another 60+ million wounded or sick with diseases such as tuberculosis or polio which they contracted from eggs contaminated with radioactive substances after being used by the Japanese to make poison gas during the war or from eating meat from cattle that had been fed on irradiated food grown using soil contaminated by radium from old radium dials used during World War I that were stolen from hospitals when they were abandoned for storage when peace broke out because they killed their owners who couldn't afford pensions when it came time for them to die from cancer or other causes that had been

Some Similar Quotes
  1. You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth. - William W. Purkey
  2. Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?"" I don't know. I don't think so."" Then how do people recognize each other?"" I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right? - R.J. Palacio
  3. I think Heaven will be like a first kiss. - Sarah Addison Allen
  4. Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  5. Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish–a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow–to sleep late, have fun,... - Hunter S. Thompson
More Quotes By Margaret D. McGee
  1. I prayed to a mystery. Sometimes I was simply aware of the mystery. I saw a flash of it during a trip to New York that David and I took before we were married. We were walking on a busy sidewalk in Manhattan. <span style="margin:15px;...
  2. I prayed to what all things hold in common. I prayed to what makes life. I thought about the elements of the universe, the rocks, the stars, the air, other living things. I tried to get the perspective of what's behind all that. <span style="margin:15px;...
  3. Science is getting knocked on all sides these days, not only from religious fundamentalists, but from all kinds of people who perceive science as arrogant, one-sided, and the source of the troubles that come with the technology it produces. It's true that individu L scientists...
  4. In my return to church, I had learned the hard way to avoid assumptions about other people's faith. For one thing, people kept surprising me. If I listened carefully to them, my conjectures about what they thought usually turned out to be wrong. For another...
Related Topics