Mencius Quotes about Heaven

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When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

Mencius

Exercise, Office, Heaven

Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.

Mencius

Men, Thinking, Heaven

Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.179

He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.

Mencius

Heart, Knowing, Heaven

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

Mencius

Reality, Heaven, Way

Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.

Mencius

Destiny, Heaven, Mind

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

Mencius

Heaven, Mind, May

Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.

Mencius

People, Heaven

Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

Mencius Quotes about Heaven

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