Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream.… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
My God, I have never thanked Thee for my 'thorn!' I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but never… — George Matheson Copy Share Image
That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Glory is a often praised thing because of the way it makes people feel, but Glory is for the weak hearted and… — Kevan Langley Copy Share Image
Every time you prefer the pleasures of this world to the joys of heaven, you spit in the face of Christ; every… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My will shall be done regardless of the flaws in thy life, if ye count upon the power of My righteousness. I… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access.… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
What most impresses sportsmen and women who exist outside the cycling bubble is the weird paradox at the heart of road cycling:… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I’m washed, I’m forgiven, I’m whole, and I’m healed. I’m cleansed and I’m glory bound. I am only a sojourner on the… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Life was not intended to be simply a round of work, no matter how interesting and important that work may be. A… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The patient man is merry indeed… The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There's some glory years, where if you play long enough and you've figured the game out, and physically you're still healthy enough,… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The power, it seduced, whispering to me to weave it into my own cells." A glance over his shoulder. "Before you, I… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good,… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
“There’s no glory in this whole shit. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Come to earth to taste our sadness, He whose glories knew no end. By His life He brings us gladness, our Redeemer,… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God.… — Guru Angad Copy Share Image
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