Tracts Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
— Daniel Boone
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The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can…
— Kurt Gödel
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Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light,…
— Alexander MacLaren
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When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world,…
— Christian Wiman
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Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by…
— Chester A. Arthur
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Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors listed above: the…
— Bernard Rimland
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Jesus Christ didnt commit the gospel to an advertising agency; He commissioned disciples. And He didnt command them to put up signs and pass out…
— Joseph Bayly
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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on…
— Agnes Smedley
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Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever…
— David Foster Wallace
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We have endless books about whether Jesus existed, or whether the Jesus we have learned about is really accurate and historical or mythical. We have…
— Joseph Girzone
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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
— Joan D. Vinge
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The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in his character, and…
— Davies Gilbert
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In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what…
— William Hazlitt
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As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts…
— Alberto Manguel
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei,…
— Thomas Pynchon
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A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise…
— Francis Schaeffer
Who Wrote These Tracts Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 26 Tracts Quotes as follows: