Persons Quotes

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The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of… — William Cobbett
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and… — Lysander Spooner
The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. — Henry David Thoreau
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. — J. Sidlow Baxter
Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer. — Reuben Archer Torrey
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire.… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can… — J C Ryle
God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are… — Thomas Brooks
If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered… — Charles R. Swindoll
Let us recognize this one thing: burden is the secret of prayer. If a person does not feel within him burden to pray for a… — Watchman Nee
If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long… — Mahatma Gandhi
Because a person chooses to leave their home country and come to the United States does not necessarily mean they have the right to demand… — Jeff Sessions
The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several… — Brother Lawrence
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety… — D. A. Carson
God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting… — Sam Storms
eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of… — Pierre Omidyar
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in… — Rajneesh
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.… — Dalai Lama

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