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Alexandre Vinet

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Also known as Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet

Swiss theologian and literary historian (1797-1847)

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  • Histoire de la littérature française au dix-huitième siècle
  • Les enfants de Dieu
  • Etude Sur l'Epître Aux Colossiens
  • Méditations Evangéliques
  • Histoire de la Prédication Parmi les Réformés de France Au Dix-Septième Siècle

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Quotes

  • Between God and man, between the gospel and each soul, the interpreter is Love.
  • We feel the necessity of deceiving ourselves, of even grossly deceiving ourselves, and of believing, when we are doing wrong, that we are doing right. When we do not succeed in reaching such persuasion, merely by sounding our own reason and conscience, we look about for something or some person to aid us in the attempt.
  • The most doubtful reasoning appears to us clear and conclusive, when we can, in any way, twist it to an accordance with what we desire.
  • A conscience that is only sluggish, may submit to truth when it happens to meet with it: but a conscience under the seductions of passion, will not submit to it without great difficulty, and will devise some pretext, some expedient, for resisting the voice of truth that openly rebukes it.
  • Our object to-day is to point out to you, brethren, that tendency we all have to consult another, in order to shun consulting ourselves.
  • The light of conscience ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the eyes of the body; and to open the former requires no greater effort than to open the latter.

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date of birth
1797-06-17
date of death
1847-05-04
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