“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“The velocity of light is one of the most important of the fundamental constants of Nature. Its measurement by Foucault and Fizeau… — A.A. Michelson Copy Share Image
When you invade Grenada, or when you invade Panama to capture a disreputable person, or when you bomb the Bosnia area, you… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“Once you understand how first-century Jewish covenant theology actually works, you will see that law-court language, 'participation' language, and a great deal… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be… — Prosper of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
We hear a lot about theological justifications for the conflicts, but very little about the scientific evidence, which in no way supports… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
We live in a world of terrorism where evil acts are being regularly perpetrated in the name of your faith. And because… — Andrew Robb Copy Share Image
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I love you, Rylann." He cupped her face, peering down into her eyes. "And now I finally have a good answer to… — Julie James Copy Share Image
“He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“The 144,000 have the patience of the saints; they keep the commandments of God, and they also have the faith of Jesus.… — M.L. Andreasen Copy Share Image
Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I am not saying this to serve as a justification for the things [Pablo Escobar] did, but rather to demonstrate the context… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening.… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, “I… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
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