Thus Quotes
2771 Thus quotes by 1600 unique authors
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National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample…
— John F. Kennedy
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The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience.…
— John Owen
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If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they…
— John Stott
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We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface…
— Philippa Perry
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Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a…
— Andreas Feininger
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Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love…
— Octavius Winslow
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The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique position to influence…
— Zeena Schreck
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Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable…
— Viktor Schauberger
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Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives
— Marianne Williamson
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Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called…
— Henri Nouwen
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Dear brothers and sisters...The Lord is calling me to "climb the mountain", to devote myself even more to prayer and meditation. But this does not…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.
— Lorenz Oken
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But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the great principles…
— Zhuangzi
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When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Besides loving each other, we must bear with each other and pardon ? 'forgive them that trespass against us' ? in order that our heavenly…
— John of Kronstadt
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There have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through Whom the generation of the birth of believers takes place, and…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though…
— Saint Augustine
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'Hail, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you' (Lk. 1:28)! Thus does the holy Church invoke the most holy Virgin, the Mother…
— John of Kronstadt
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Prayer is spiritual breathing; when we pray we breathe in the Holy Spirit; praying in the Holy Spirit (Jd. 1:20). Thus, all church prayers are…
— John of Kronstadt
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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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... the Lord Jesus said, 'To those who are in bonds, Come out, and to those who are in prison, Go forth' (Isa. 49:9); so…
— Ambrose
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... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite means to gain…
— Lorenzo Scupoli
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...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the same time has…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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