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Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth… — John Calvin
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very… — John Calvin
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom,… — John Calvin
For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it… — John Calvin
What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to… — Milton Friedman
Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always the special case.… — Milton Friedman
Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as… — Zygmunt Bauman
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his… — Richard Rorty
It must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their thoughts of spiritual… — John Owen
All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind. — Charles Spurgeon
If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If… — Charles Spurgeon
Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s name in it,… — Charles Spurgeon
The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for his return. They looked backward to the cross and the atonement for… — J C Ryle
Someone ought to write a novel about me, — Catherynne M. Valente
People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems… — Alice Miller
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear… — Thomas Merton
We’re Bible-thumpers who just happened to end up on television. You put in your article that the Robertson family really believes strongly that if the… — Phil Robertson
I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves… — Auguste Rodin
Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of… — R. Kent Hughes
The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, “I am not what I ought to be. I am not what… — Mark Dever
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either,… — Kevin DeYoung
You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But… — Steven Brust

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