Laid Upon Quotes
30 quotes by 28 authors
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I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon…
— Helen Keller
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid upon her by…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Now, we have the Holy Ghost. Each one of us who is a member of the Church has had hands laid upon his head and…
— Marion G. Romney
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If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects…
— Samuel Adams
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What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from…
— Richard Sibbes
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Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
— John Bunyan
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner…
— Abraham Kuyper
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Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden…
— Charlotte Mason
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Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into…
— Martin Luther
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...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those…
— J C Ryle
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God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid…
— Tracy Kidder
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The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
— Iris Murdoch
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If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home.
— Billy Graham
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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of…
— Isaac Barrow
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We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as…
— Mark Hopkins
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