Leon Bourgeois famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason. Two forces within the individual contribute to the development of his conscience and of his morality: reason and sensitivity.
-- Leon Bourgeois

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All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!
-- Leon Bourgeois

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The doctrine of Christ enjoins men, all brothers in His eyes, to love one another.
-- Leon Bourgeois

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Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.
-- Leon Bourgeois

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Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.
-- Leon Bourgeois

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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.

Leon Bourgeois famous quotes

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