"There is poetry and there is beauty in……" — Octavius Winslow
"There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help."
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Octavius Winslow
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14 Quotes by Octavius Winslow
Octavius Winslow has 14 quotes on this site.
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It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings.…
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Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek…
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In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable…
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Behold in faith the sinless, spotless Lamb of God as having already borne that weight, as having suffered for those…
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If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never…
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For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
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Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its…
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God is near at hand when you do approach Him in prayer. Oh, comforting truth! A God at hand to…
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Seasons vary, circumstances change, feelings fluctuate, friendships cool, friends die, but Christ is ever the same.
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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…
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Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; -…
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The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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