
“There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father”
No. 51
Pensées Philosophiques (1746)
Source: India: Ranchi Church offers free lunch to relatives of Covid-19 patients https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2021-05/india-ranchi-archdiocese-free-lunch-families-covid.html (4 May 2021)
“There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father”
No. 51
Pensées Philosophiques (1746)
“Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?”
“There will be good moments, and there will be less good moments.”
April 7, 2004, in reference to the 2004 spring uprising in Iraq http://www.defenselink.mil/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=2469
2000s
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 156).
“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.”
"On True Happiness", Pennsylvania Gazette (20 November 1735).
1730s
“I shared with ships good joys and fortunes wide
That might befall their beauty and their pride”
"Sailing Ships", p. 162
Collected Poems (1933)
Context: While many a lovely ship below sailed by
On unknown errand, kempt and leisurely;
And after each, oh, after each, my heart
Fled forth, as, watching from the Downs apart,
I shared with ships good joys and fortunes wide
That might befall their beauty and their pride…
IX. On Providence, Fate, and Fortune.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
2000s, 2004, Speech at the Republican National Convention (2004)
al-Tabarsi, Al-Ihtijaj, vol.2, p. 499
Religious-based Quotes