
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Swami Aseshananda, Glimpses of a Great Soul; a Portrait of Swami Saradananda, 43]
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Source: Reason: The Only Oracle Of Man (1784), Ch. III Section III - Human Liberty, Agency and Accountability, cannot be attended with Eternal Consequences, either Good or Evil
Context: It appears that mankind in this life are not agents of trial for eternity, but that they will eternally remain agents of trial. To suppose that our eternal circumstances will be unalterably fixed in happiness or misery, in consequence of the agency or transactions of this temporary life, is inconsistent with the moral government of God, and the progressive and retrospective knowledge of the human mind. God has not put it into our power to plunge ourselves into eternal woe and perdition; human liberty is not so extensive, for the term of human life bears no proportion to eternity succeeding it; so that there could be no proportion between a momentary agency, (which is liberty of action,) or probation, and any supposed eternal consequences of happiness or misery resulting from it.
“All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death;”
De Profundis (1897)
“Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.”
Quoted in Shackleton (2013) by Roland Huntford https://books.google.cl/books?id=U6MNkTbRwtwC&pg=PT250&lpg=PT250&dq=Difficulties+are+just+things+to+overcome+after+all&source=bl&ots=3gWt7QcL43&sig=y5CzkBvxAdWC7MlWA3eP1eNkpDs&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Difficulties%20are%20just%20things%20to%20overcome%20after%20all&f=false
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 161.
pg.50, 1860 edition
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860
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