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We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Early in life, when I first saw waterlilies on the ripples of a lake, I didn't think they were flowers which grew… — Lucian Blaga Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door… — Vicki Goldberg Copy Share Image
The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed,… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Sometimes I come here just to be a lost mariner but I am never lost: there are the snowflakes frozen to the… — Nancy Eimers Copy Share Image
Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us,… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“You know, Ella, you're not the first woman who's ever been in this shower with me--" "I'm shocked." I leaned back against… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests,… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You see a briefcase for business, a bookbag for education, a knife and gun for violence. Then there's government, law, media overall,… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane,… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
It was recently. It happened while I was filming Water for Elephants in which my partner is Reese Witherspoon. We had a… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR… — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
“The flavor is not the important element. What really matters is the water. If th pitcher (Christian) is filled with water (Jesus),… — Steve McVey Copy Share Image
If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON FOR JESUS… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
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![“The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved . . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of…” quote by Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f3/ambrose-9220_baptism_the-church-was-redeemed-at-the-price-of_2194608.jpg)
![“If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward…” quote by Samuel Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cad/samuel-butler-823_bottom_if-science-tends-to-thicken-the-crust-of_1086221.jpg)
![“Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it 'jal', others at another place and call it 'pani', and still others at a third place and call it 'water'…” quote by Ramakrishna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/23c/ramakrishna-2451_brahman_different-people-call-on-god-by-differen_1379769.jpg)
