"We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance."

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Source : Joseph De Maistre (2011). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment”, Transaction Publishers

Joseph de Maistre

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“You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.”
“Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.”
“As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together.”
“I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I just want to completely break whatever patterns would lead me to the same life choices that they made.”
“Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.”
“Charlie whistled "Amazing Grace" as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn't he pick something more appropriate, like "Shout at the Devil" or "Don't fear the Reaper"? Some people had no sense of the proper music for a kidnapping.”
“We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?”
“A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.”

Source : James Carlos Blake (2010). “Handsome Harry: A Novel”, p.80, Zondervan

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