“Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.”
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“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”
Variant: Everything happens for a reason, even when we are not wise enough to see it. When there is no struggle, there is no strength.
“Not without reason did he who had the right to do so speak of the foolishness of the cross.”
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Context: Not without reason did he who had the right to do so speak of the foolishness of the cross. Foolishness, without a doubt, foolishness. And the American humorist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, was not altogether wide of the mark in making one of the characters in his ingenious conversations say that he thought better of those who were confined in a lunatic asylum on account of religious mania than of those who, while professing the same religious principles, kept their wits and appeared to enjoy life very well outside the asylums. But those who are at large, are they not really, thanks to God, mad too? Are there not mild madnesses, which not only permit us to mix with our neighbors without danger to society, but which rather enable us to do so, for by means of them we are able to attribute a meaning and finality to life and society?