Francis John McConnell quotes

“We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.”
-- Francis John McConnell

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“We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.”
-- Francis John McConnell

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“We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.”
-- Francis John McConnell

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“Our choices determine our destiny”

Source : A. R. Bernard (2016). “Four Things Women Want from a Man”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

“When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.”

“I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.”

“When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.”

“Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.”

“Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.”

“Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.”

“The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.”

“Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.”

“I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson”