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On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed. — Pope Francis
I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that… — Donna Tartt
We need not worry if we can’t simultaneously do all of the things that the Lord has counseled us to do. He has spoken of… — Richard G. Scott
Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the… — Edna O'Brien
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive has yet taken… — Mikhail Bakhtin
Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little… — Florence Nightingale
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.… — Walter Lippmann
One never repents of having spoken too little but often of having spoken too much. — Unknown Author
The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value… — Helen Hunt Jackson
Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions. — James Mill
John McCain has not spoken about my Muslim faith. — Barack Obama
On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations'… — Jenny Shipley
My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do… — Edgar Degas
I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal… — Brian Tracy
I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as… — Aldous Huxley
We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me… — Ashly Lorenzana
There's many a true word spoken in jest. — James Joyce
For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are… — John Calvin
Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken. — George MacDonald
God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's… — J I Packer
Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the… — John Bunyan
Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants' work than His servants… — J C Ryle
Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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