They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
May we not have a picture of Christ, who has a true body? By no means; because, though he has a true… — James Fisher Copy Share Image
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
Health is more than the mere absence of disease, it's the presence of a superior state of well being, a pizzazz, a… — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz Copy Share Image
Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion. — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac. — Sharon Begley Copy Share Image
Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits,… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
