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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

Denis Diderot

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

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