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Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it… — Susanna Wesley
Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony — John Stott
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of… — Bernard de Mandeville
The sinful actions of men may be sinful, either from the motives which prompt them, the ends in view, or the means by which they… — James Petigru Boyce
God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to make God the… — Louis Berkhof
In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition,… — Louis Berkhof
It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins — Augustus Hopkins Strong
Sin may then be defined ultimately as anything in the creature which does not express, or which is contrary to, the holy character of the… — J. Oliver Buswell
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,… — Olive Schreiner
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose
We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death,… — Subhas Chandra Bose
Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a… — Subhas Chandra Bose
As Fuehrer of the German people and Chancellor of the Reich, I can thank God at this moment that he has so wonderfully blessed us… — Adolf Hitler
We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must… — Glen E. Morrell
Air power may either end war or end civilization. — Winston Churchill
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with… — Henry David Thoreau
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic. — Desiderius Erasmus
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own… — Hannah Arendt
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy
If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a… — Mildred H. McAfee
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. — Henry Taylor
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to… — Charles Horton Cooley
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider — Joyce Brothers
Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a… — Charles Saatchi

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