Plainly Quotes
194 quotes by 163 authors
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... there is clearly expressed for us? what it is we must attribute either to free will or to the decision and daily assistance of…
— John Cassian
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Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by its own inner…
— Ambrose
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Our Lord Jesus Christ made the merciful shepherding of His sheep the proof of love for Himself (cf. Jn. 21:15-17). He denounces as 'wicked' the…
— Pope Dionysius
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All the simplicity in the world can do no good, unless you preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ so fully and clearly that everybody…
— J C Ryle
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And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the…
— Socrates
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In the resurrection there is already wrapped up a judging-process, at least for believers: the raising act in their case, together with the attending change,…
— Geerhardus Vos
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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse…
— Mark Twain
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
— Arnold Bennett
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Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to…
— John Marshall
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Now, Friends, deal plainly with yourselves, and let the eternal Light search you, and try you, for the good of your souls. For this will…
— Margaret Fell
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The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of…
— Pope Francis
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Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations…
— Lewis Mumford
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The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the…
— Israel Shamir
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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is…
— John Ruskin
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All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to…
— Ravi Zacharias
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came…
— Walt Whitman
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As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps. We are like…
— George Eliot
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The Book of Mormon contains the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ (D&C 20:9). That does not mean it contains every teaching, every doctrine…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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