How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint,… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the… — Christopher Strachey Copy Share Image
I think we're in a new era where the advancing tide is towards human unity, where people all around the world want… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro was a revolutionary spirit from the practical spiritual side of it, but not with "religiosity"; not with prayer and fasting… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because peace is a fruit of the Spirit, we are dependent upon the Spirit's work in our lives to produce the desire… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image
[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to… — Thanissaro Bhikkhu Copy Share Image
The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the… — John Beddington Copy Share Image
A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a sentimental thing. — Charles Villiers Stanford Copy Share Image
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