Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
Charles de Secondat
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That [...]
“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.”-Albert Einstein
“Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.”-Euripides
“The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.”-Homer
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise [...]
Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense. (Josh Billings)
Talent must have memory; genius don’t require it. (Josh Billings)
Genius learns from nature; talent from books. (Josh Billings)
Men of genius are scarce, but men of genius who use their genius for the benefit of the world are scarcer. (Josh Billings )
Genius is nothing else than [...]
A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. (Spurgeon)
In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth [...]
“My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul. ( William Shakespeare)
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. (Samuel Johnson)
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of [...]