Source: 1850s, Practice in Christianity (September 1850), p. 34
Context: When God chooses to let himself be born in lowliness, when he who holds all possibilities in his hand takes upon himself the form of a lowly servant, when he goes about defenseless and lets people do with him what they will, he surely must know well enough what he is doing and why he wills it; but for all that it is he who has people in his power and not they who have power over him-so history ought not play Mr. Malapert http://www.archive.org/stream/villagedialogue01hillgoog#page/n121/mode/1up by this wanting to make manifest who he was.
"Dolce far Niente", Stanza 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)
That we ought not to be affected by Things not in our own Power, Chap. xxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“"When I was born, God pointed at me and said “That’s the man"”
Quando eu nasci, Deus apontou o dedo em minha direção e disse: esse é o cara.
Source: esportes.terra.
Context: When he signed with Fluminense in 2002.
“An individual chooses and makes himself.”
The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise (2017)
