Effectual Quotes

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We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive… — Thomas Jefferson
The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when life is too… — Dion Fortune
... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite means to gain… — Lorenzo Scupoli
What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones. — Seneca the Younger
Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ.… — R C Sproul
I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as… — Michael Faraday
Jesus is now the Lord; He is enthroned at the right hand of God; He is reigning in His kingdom. But this is a Lordship… — George Eldon Ladd
A designerâ€¦has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the… — Lester Beall
I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious… — George Washington
But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates… — Adam Weishaupt
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out… — Charles Horton Cooley
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel. — Josh Billings
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not… — Joseph Addison
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual. — Seneca the Younger
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which… — Adam Smith
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which… — Josiah Warren
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and… — George Washington
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. — Ida B. Wells
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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