Quotes about Accidental

Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,

Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:

Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

Reply to Objection 5: As was said above, the parts of the universe are ordered to each other, according as one acts on the other, and according as one is the end and exemplar of the other. But, as was said above, this can only happen to evil as joined to some good. Hence evil neither belongs to the perfection of the universe, nor does it come under the order of the same, except accidentally, that is, by reason of some good joined to it.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

When enough fiction is written and enough scientific hypotheses are proposed, sooner or later there will be accidental concordances.

Our perceptions can be very convincing, but God tells us the truth. Nothing about our existence is accidental. We were known before we knew we were alive. We were planned and, as a matter of fact, planted on this earth for this moment in time (Acts 17:26).

When you look at the vast size of the universe, and how insignificant and accidental human life is in it, that seems most implausible.

The way of objective reflection turns the individual into something accidental, and thus turns existence into an indifferent, vanishing something.