Corruptions Quotes

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In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book… — Graydon Carter
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions. — Lewis Mumford
Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth… — John Owen
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy… — D. A. Carson
I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit… — Joseph Williams
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry]… — Thomas Jefferson
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it. The religion of… — Noah Webster
A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all… — Alexander Hamilton
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance… — Matthew Henry
I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am… — King James I
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling… — Renata Adler
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the… — Noah Webster
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it. — Noah Webster
I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught… — Thomas Jefferson
In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only… — Thomas Jefferson
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in… — Petrarch
Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still… — John Owen
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. — Charles Baxter
It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of… — Mary Hesse

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