Edifying Quotes

27 quotes by 22 authors

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
The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned… — James Madison
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
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
I now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a floodâ€¦.I exhort you to sweep the earth with messages filled with… — David A. Bednar
When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edifyâ€”build upâ€”ourselves or someone else,… — Myles Munroe
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
Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation. — John Cage
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We donâ€™t like to think of ourselves as preyâ€”it is a lessening thoughtâ€”but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget… — Gary Paulsen

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