“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Change is the nature of God’s mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.”
Between the Bridge and the River (2006)
Variant: Change is the nature of God’s mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.
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Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Affrontare il dolore, provoca un cambiamento emotivo di resistenza, forza e coraggio, nel percorso esistenziale di ogni essere vivente.
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Thomas Tredgold (1788–1829) engineer
Thomas Tredgold (1828), used in the Royal Charter of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) published in: The Times, London, article CS102127326, 30 June 1828.
“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.”
Jonathan Swift book A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
“Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.”
Res secundæ valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.
Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian
X, 1, 40.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book X