Book 2, Ch. 120.
The Histories
“Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.”
William Carey (missionary) (1761–1834) English Baptist missionary and a Particular Baptist minister
As quoted in The Baptist Herald and Friend of Africa (October 1842) and "The Missionary Herald" in The Baptist Magazine Vol. 35 (January 1843), p. 41
Genghis Khan (1162–1227) founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire
As quoted in Ta'Rikh-i-Jahan Gusha [History of the World Conqueror] by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini (ca. 1252-1260), translated by J.A. Boyle (1958), p. 105
Context: O people, know that you have committed great sins, and that the great ones among you have committed these sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
“The worst punishment from God is the separation from Him.”
Sari al-Saqati (772–867) Iraqi sufi
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, p. 43
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
Letter to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 July 1644)
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
§ III
1910s, At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Vilna Gaon (1720–1797) Polish-Lithuanian rabbi; Mitnagdim leader in opposition to Hasidism
Alim li-Terufa as cited in "Separation from the Worldly (Perishut)" http://etzion.org.il/en/separation-worldly-perishut
“God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Dios le ha dado mucho al hombre; pero el hombre quisiera algo del hombre.
Voces (1943)
J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964) Geneticist and evolutionary biologist
Daedalus or Science and the Future (1923)
