"Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven."

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Source : Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1769). “Sermons "on the Duties of the Great,": Translated from the French of M. Massillon, ... by William Dodd, ...”, p.52

Jean Baptiste Massillon

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“I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.”
“Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.”

Source : John Townsend Trowbridge (1881). “A Home Idyl: And Other Poems”
“It seems to me that I have always wanted to say the same things in my books: that life is one, that mystery is all around us, that yesterday, today and tomorrow are all spread out in the pattern of eternity, together, and that although love may wear many faces in the incomprehensible panorama of time, in the heart that loves it is always the same.”
“You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You're looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!”
“I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.”
“The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.”
“Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I do. I write songs which have a narrative and attempt to make sense and tell a story - sure! But whenever I hear the word "storyteller" I think of a children's musician.”
“Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.”

Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Half a Life”, p.74, Pan Macmillan

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