Plain Quotes

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Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described… — Christopher Lasch
I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour… — Albert Einstein
I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now… — Rod McKuen
...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever… — Ulysses S. Grant
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no… — Ayn Rand
The covetous man feareth not God. This also is plain from the word because it setteth covetousness and the fear of God in direct opposition.… — John Bunyan
It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it — M.F.K. Fisher
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen. — Frances Perkins
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having… — John Jay Hooker
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. — Anne Hutchinson
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
If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got… — Lawrence Bossidy
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of… — Glen Cook
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that… — John Knox
It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. — John Wycliffe
To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination… — William Tyndale
To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest,… — Vincent Van Gogh
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to… — Thaddeus Stevens

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