Famous quotes containing the words christian and/or frederick:
“He says a man may perhaps answer, that the necessity of things held by him, is not a stoical necessity, but a Christian necessity, &c. But this distinction I have not used, nor indeed have ever heard before, nor could I think any man could make stoical and Christian two kinds of necessity, though they may be two kinds of doctrine”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break.”
—John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)