“There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father”
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
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”
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
No. 51
Pensées Philosophiques (1746)
“Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?”
Goldie Hawn (1945) American actress, film director, and producer.
“There will be good moments, and there will be less good moments.”
Donald Rumsfeld (1932) U.S. Secretary of Defense
April 7, 2004, in reference to the 2004 spring uprising in Iraq http://www.defenselink.mil/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=2469 <br class="br">2000s
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(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.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
"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”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) English writer and gardener
"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…
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
IX. On Providence, Fate, and Fortune.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
2000s, 2004, Speech at the Republican National Convention (2004)
Muhammad al-Mahdi (869–941) 12th and last Imam in Twelver Shia Islam
al-Tabarsi, Al-Ihtijaj, vol.2, p. 499
Religious-based Quotes