Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks… — C. I. Scofield Copy Share Image
“To make it quite practical I have a very simple test. After I have explained the way of Christ to somebody I… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and… — G. Frank Lawlis Copy Share Image
When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with… — C. F. W. Walther Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ;… — William Blum Copy Share Image
“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Justification is the means whereby we appropriate the saving act of God in the past, and sanctification the promise of God's activity… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Justification is not how someone becomes a Christian. It is the declaration that they have become a Christian. And the total context… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature,… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“When smart people do dumb things it’s usually due to one of two things. The two things are greed and fear. They… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification.… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or… — Anne LaBastille Copy Share Image
I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“The defense of necessity is considered a justification defense, as compared with an excuse defense such as duress. An action that is… — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
I think it's for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation; I believe in… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Never think of justification as something that happens solely at the beginning of the Christian life, as though, once you are justified,… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
“The justification of capitalism is not that the economy grows faster than it grows under any other system ... not that the… — M. Northrup Buechner Copy Share Image
Dismantling the ego, quieting the mind, isn't something you can actively undertake to do. It just happens on its own, when you… — Jan Frazier Copy Share Image
