
“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”
Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis.
Malheur at Pitié (1803), canto I.
“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”
Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis.
Malheur at Pitié (1803), canto I.
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
Post-Presidency, Nobel lecture (2002)
Rep. Greg Steube Rejects Democrat Colleagues’ Dismissal of Scripture:’ It’s Pertinent to the Discussion’ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/02/rep-greg-steube-rejects-democrat-colleagues-dismissal-of-scripture-its-pertinent-to-the-discussion/ (2 March 2021)
“We thank God that our enemies are idiots.”
6 February 2006
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/06/wiran06.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_06022006
2006
“Thanks, God, for honoring our best by giving us a miracle.”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 147
Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Context: The gods we stand by are the gods we need and can use, the gods whose demands on us are reinforcements of our demands on ourselves and on one another. What I then propose to do is, briefly stated, to test saintliness by common sense, to use human standards to help us decide how far the religious life commends itself as an ideal kind of human activity. … It is but the elimination of the humanly unfit, and the survival of the humanly fittest, applied to religious beliefs; and if we look at history candidly and without prejudice, we have to admit that no religion has ever in the long run established or proved itself in any other way. Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”