The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in… — Erich von Manstein Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Copy Share Image
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is, in effect, the Recruiter-in-Chief for ISIS. ISIS wants nothing more right now than to have the world divided into… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
