May Quotes

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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may… — Thomas Carlyle
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it… — F. H. Bradley
As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and… — Ariel Dorfman
Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though… — Ben Affleck
Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker… — Khalil Gibran
There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep,… — Thomas Hood
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth… — Pope John XXIII
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may… — Henry David Thoreau
Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is.… — John G. Lake
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

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