"All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another."

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Source : Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.194, Routledge

Nicolas Malebranche

#Unions Quotes #United Quotes #Creatures Quotes

“It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries of the senses, all five of them; so that we, in turn, may hear the grass growing; see a face springing to life in love and laughter. . . The offerings of creation. . . our glimpses of truth.”
“I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.”
“I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.”
“If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses.Â I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself.Â I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: â€˜Excuse me, it was all a dream,â€™ and by that time I may have found one who will say: â€˜Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.â€™”
“Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.”
“For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for the commitment of Christian children who help the Church in her task of evangelization by prayer, sacrifice and gestures of solidarity....Thousands of children meet the needs of other children, driven by the love that the Son of God, become a child, brought to the earth. I say thanks to these little ones and I pray that they will always be missionaries.”
“Insomnia is only mind over mattress.”

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