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Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as… — J F C Fuller
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand
Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus. — John Green
God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely… — Dorothy L. Sayers
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs… — Prince Charles
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic. — Benjamin Jowett
To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots. — Richard Mabey
My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that… — John Dominic Crossan
The words 'California's Gold' will no longer mean anything about me or about a television series. They will mean what California's Gold has always truly… — Huell Howser
Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate… — Charlton Heston
As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You… — Roz Chast
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is seen as one… — Unknown Author
Cars are good for entrances and exits. And there is something about driving that is quite cliched in a funny way. I like Roy Orbison's… — Richard Ayoade
It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not… — Joseph Wood Krutch
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the… — Uta Hagen
Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell. — Poul Anderson
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But… — Paul Bloom
How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that… — Vincent Van Gogh
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be… — Julie Taymor
It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and… — Galileo Galilei
I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity;… — Charles Darwin
I think that hell essentially is separation from God forever. And that is the worst hell that I can think of. But I think people… — Billy Graham
It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity… — J I Packer

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