Edifying Quotes
27 quotes by 22 authors
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Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned…
— James Madison
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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to…
— Aldous Huxley
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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I now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a flood….I exhort you to sweep the earth with messages filled with…
— David A. Bednar
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When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edify—build up—ourselves or someone else,…
— Myles Munroe
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
— John Cage
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Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do…
— J C Ryle
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You're grounded!!!! You can't go out and prowl the L.A. streets. You've got to do something more edifying, emboldening and altogether more groovy. You gots…
— James Ellroy
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I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live…
— Bruce Sterling
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Although my parents were kind and loving, I had none of the joys, or the companionship, which small children usually have. From my earliest years…
— John George Haigh
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I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take…
— Carrie Brownstein
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GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter…
— Ambrose Bierce
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest…
— James Madison
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Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do…
— Tara Bray Smith
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this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the…
— Karen Armstrong
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We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget…
— Gary Paulsen
Who Wrote These Edifying Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 27 Edifying Quotes as follows: