„When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.“
— Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892 - 1983
Origine: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
„He did not command us to give up and to discontinue all these manners of service, for“
— Mosè Maimonide, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.32
Contesto: The custom which was in those days general among all men, and the general mode of worship in which the Israelites were brought up, consisted in sacrificing animals in those temples which contained certain images to bow down to those images, and to burn incense before them; religious and ascetic persons were in those days the persons that were devoted to the service in the temples erected to the stars... It was in accordance with the wisdom and plan of God, as displayed in the whole Creation, that He did not command us to give up and to discontinue all these manners of service, for to obey such a commandment it would have been contrary to the nature of man, who generally cleaves to that to which he is used... By this Divine plan it was effected that the traces of idolatry were blotted out, and the truly great principle of our faith, the existence and Unity of God, was firmly established; this result was thus obtained without deterring or confusing the minds of the people by the abolition of the service to which they were accustomed and which alone was familiar to them.
Mosè Maimonide6
filosofo, rabbino e medico ebraico 1138 - 1204Citazioni simili
— Jacques Lacan French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist 1901 - 1981
The Freudian Unconscious and Ours
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho Analysis (1978)
„Give what you command, and command what you will. You impose continency on us.“
Da quod iubes, et iube quod vis. Imperas nobis … continentiam.
— Aurelius Augustinus, libro Confessioni
X, 29
Confessions (c. 397)
— George Fox English Dissenter and founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) 1624 - 1691
Journal (1694)
— John Boyne Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction 1971
Origine: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
— John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018
2010s, 2016, Statement regarding the Khan family (1 August 2016)
„It suffices for you to have good manners by giving up what you hate of others.“
— Ali al-Hadi imam 829 - 868
[Ma’athir al-Kubara’, 3, 219]
[Baqir Shareef al-Qarashi, Abdullah al-Shahin, The Life of Imam ‘Ali al-Hadi, Study and Analysis, His narrations from Amir’ul- Mu’minin, 2007, 82]
General subjects
— Omar Bradley United States Army field commander during World War II 1893 - 1981
Origine: A Soldier's Story (1951), p. xi.
— Ethan Allen American general 1738 - 1789
Thus he ranks himself with finite beings, and with them acknowledges, that he did not know the day and hour of judgment, and at the same time ascribes a superiority of knowledge to the father, for that he knew the day and hour of judgment.
Origine: Reason: The Only Oracle Of Man (1784), Ch. IX Section III - The Imperfection of Knowledge in the Person of Jesus Christ, incompatible with his Divinity
— Oswald Chambers British missionary 1874 - 1917
Origine: My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year
— Oliver Goldsmith, libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 1, opening lines.
— Maimónides, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.32
— Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416
He is with us in Heaven, very Man, in His own Person, us updrawing; and that was shewed in the Spiritual Thirst. And He is with us in earth, us leading; and that was shewed in the Third, where I saw God in a Point. And He is with us in our soul, endlessly dwelling, us ruling and keeping; and that was shewed in the Sixteenth, as I shall tell.
Summations, Chapter 52
— Maimónides, libro The Guide for the Perplexed
Origine: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.32
Contesto: What prevented Him from making His primary object a direct commandment to us, and to give us the capacity of obeying it?... As it is the chief object and purpose of God that we should believe in the Law, and act according to that which is written therein, why has He not given us the capacity of continually believing in it, and following its guidance, instead of holding out to us reward for obedience, and punishment for disobedience, or of actually giving all the predicted reward and punishment? For [the promises and the threats] are but the means of leading to this chief object. What prevented Him from giving us, as part of our nature, the will to do that which He desires us to do, and to abandon the kind of worship which He rejects? There is one general answer to these three questions, and all questions of the character; it is this: Although in every one of the signs [related in Scripture] the natural property of some individual being is changed, the nature of man is never changed by God by way of miracle.... it is in His power, according to the principles taught in Scripture, but it has never been His will to do it, and it never will be. If it were part of His will to change [at His desire] the nature of any person, the mission of prophets and the giving of the Law would have been altogether superfluous.
— Immanuel Kant German philosopher 1724 - 1804
Kant, Immanuel (1996). Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View https://books.google.com/books?id=TbkVBMKz418C. Translated by Victor Lyle Dowdell. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 9780809320608. Page 33.
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)
— Pope Francis 266th Pope of the Catholic Church 1936
As quoted in "Pope at Mass: Culture of encounter is the foundation of peace" at Vatican Radio (22 May 2013) http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/05/22/pope_at_mass:_culture_of_encounter_is_the_foundation_of_peace/en1-694445
2010s, 2013
Contesto: The Lord created us in His image and likeness, and we are the image of the Lord, and He does good and all of us have this commandment at heart: do good and do not do evil. All of us. "But, Father, this is not Catholic! He cannot do good." Yes, he can. He must. Not can: must! Because he has this commandment within him. Instead, this "closing off" that imagines that those outside, everyone, cannot do good is a wall that leads to war and also to what some people throughout history have conceived of: killing in the name of God. That we can kill in the name of God. And that, simply, is blasphemy. To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
— John Knox Scottish clergyman, writer and historian 1514 - 1572
John Knox, A Vindication of the Doctrine that the Sacrifice of the Mass is Idolatry http://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualNLs/vindicat.htm, 1550; as quoted in Selected Writings of John Knox: Public Epistles, Treatises, and Expositions to the Year 1559
