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«They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.»
Author: Dorothy Thompson
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«Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.»
«What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? / He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? / Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.»
«PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
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Pain
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«Today we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth are our neighbors»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
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«One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.»
«O Nanak, it is absurd to ask to be spared from pain by begging for comfort.»
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