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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…
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The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that…
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration…
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If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the…
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How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
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You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He…
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The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending…
— John William Draper
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Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the…
— Joseph Dalton Hooker
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From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
— Joseph Addison
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What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.
— Thomas Bradwardine
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We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
— J C Ryle
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If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long…
— Patrick Henry
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely…
— Brian Tracy
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