"To see evil and call it good, mocks……" — Stephen R. Lawhead
"To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled."
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41 Quotes by Stephen R. Lawhead
Stephen R. Lawhead has 41 quotes on this site.
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Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very…
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I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the…
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Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.
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None of us ever knows what impact we have on the world around us.
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Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.
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Death wears many faces, but it’s stench is always the same.
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Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.
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We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the…
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I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed…
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Life is a school of the spirit.
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We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did…
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Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died,…
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built…
— Unknown Author
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Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have…
— Bertrand Russell
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and…
— Barack Obama
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Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be…
— Oscar Romero
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A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty…
— Alexander Cockburn
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It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination.
— Marlon Riggs
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Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
— Horace Kephart
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness…
— Joseph Conrad
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I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thailand|Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we…
— Dwight L. Moody
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