Quotes 101 till 120 of 12730.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
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The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
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The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
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There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
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There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
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There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.
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Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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"Skepticism", is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, "Well, what have we here?"
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'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
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.. it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
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