Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts… — John Piper Copy Share Image
To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of… — Sol Stern Copy Share Image
There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife.… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ...… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large.… — William Walsh Copy Share Image
So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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