Given Us Quotes
345 quotes by 293 authors
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Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and…
— Robert A. Burton
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Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.
— Arnold Kling
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Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic…
— Joe Klein
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Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two…
— Brené Brown
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The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves to go back…
— Heber J. Grant
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The Earth is indeed a precious gift of the Creator who, in designing its intrinsic order, has given us bearings that guide us as stewards…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
— Eliza Haywood
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While understanding the 'what' and the 'how' of the gospel is necessary, the eternal fire and majesty of the gospel springs from the 'why.' When…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.
— Keith Miller
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The first great commandment was to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, might, mind and strength; and the second was like unto…
— Heber J. Grant
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I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a…
— A.J. Ayer
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It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given…
— Niall Williams
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The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not…
— John Calvin
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If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in…
— Thomas Merton
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Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual…
— John Stott
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We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with a…
— George F. Kennan
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Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the gifts we bear,…
— Harry Hay
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The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object…
— Basil W. Maturin
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And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices,…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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