Acts Quotes

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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the… — George Bernard Shaw
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our… — Alfred Korzybski
Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed… — John B. S. Haldane
Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in… — Milton Friedman
Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say privately is they… — Pat Buchanan
The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances,… — J I Packer
In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,… — Thomas Merton
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society… — Mircea Eliade
Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts… — Thomas Harris
Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. They're… — Phil Robertson
Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by â€˜the enemyâ€™, and from which oneâ€™s own acts of… — David Livingstone
Holiness is the sum of a million little things â€” the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of… — Kevin DeYoung
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful… — Henry Morton Stanley
One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate to… — Jay Maisel
The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and… — Samuel Smiles
We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdomâ€¦goes out into… — N. T. Wright
Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized… — Eugene H. Peterson
The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be Christâ€™s witnesses all… — Bill Hybels
Stated baldly,Â charity certainly means one of two thingsâ€“pardoning unpardonable acts,Â or loving unlovable people. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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