Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool...
Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool...
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand
Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food our house, our parent, and our nurse.
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star but even so and all the more what marvelous creatures we are What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is blind or not a good world to live in, a promising universe.... We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.
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