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The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor. Jacques Ellul

Alone Neighbor Spirit Link Establish Holy Holy Spirit

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. Jacques Ellul

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. Jacques Maritain

Love Sometimes Qualities Well Person Reason Defects

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men. James Harrington

Words Law Men Paper Without Hands Swords

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. James Martineau

Grief Memory Sympathy Only Affections Widowed

I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jan Hus

Death Hope God Faith Grace Christ Wish Christian Our Our Lord Penalty Would Rather Outside Terrible Lord Am Lord Jesus Lord Jesus Christ Truly Commandments Affirm Than Anything Transgress Suffer Jesus Jesus Christ

He that fears death loses the joys of life. Jan Hus

Life Death Fears He Joys Loses

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Give Sciences Taste Children Them Should Teach

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truth Only Combinations Falsehood Mode Infinity Being

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thought Too Having Misfortunes Come Well Fellows

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Adversity Prosperity Sleeps Bitter Remorse Consciousness

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosophers Shared Does Exist Exists Deny Mania Explain Ages

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Long Respects Remained Am Still Child Many Many Respects

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking. Jean-Paul Sartre

Me Thought Think Thinking Because Exist Stop Cannot Keep Why

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. Jean-Paul Sartre

Victory Defeat Distinguish Detail Longer

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing Enjoy Else Possess Abandon Object Give Gives Fact Higher Through Generosity Than Which Manner Away

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. Jean-Paul Sartre

Become Recount Adventure Occurrence Sufficient Necessary

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. Jean-Paul Sartre

Day Become Hours Saint Sixteen Cannot Works

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. Jean-Paul Sartre

Life Finance Our Generosity Know Exercise Poor Function

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. Jean-Paul Sartre

Worth Trouble Single Everything Someone Hour Literature

God is absence. God is the solitude of man. Jean-Paul Sartre

God Man Solitude Absence

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