Alexandre Vinet Quotes

• God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

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  Aspiration, Aim, Humans

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• Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

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  Suffering, Doe, Sometimes

  Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1865). “Outlines of Theology”, p.238

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• Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

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  Religion, Principles, Missions

  Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1865). “Outlines of Philosophy and Literature”, p.129

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• Liberty is life; slavery is death.

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  Liberty, Slavery

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• Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

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  Way, Causes, Slave

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• Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

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  Christian, Courage, Sorrow

  Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1866). “Outlines of Theology”, p.301

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