Quotes 5881 till 5900 of 8617.
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
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The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
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The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
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The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
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The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 101 -
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
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The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but they are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. II, SOURCES AND TRADITIONS, p. 26 -
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
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The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.
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The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
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The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
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