"To be pure in heart is to take……" — John Calvin
"To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart."
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237 Quotes by John Calvin
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long…
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and…
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is…
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step…
— Maria Montessori
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Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't…
— Max Beerbohm
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To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament…
— Teresa of Avila
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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Many can argue - not many converse.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of…
— Yoshida Kenko
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There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The…
— Clifford Truesdell
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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love,…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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