Arise Quote by Thomas Adams Download Open image “Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.” — Thomas Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arise Character Half Temptation Virtue Way
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one. — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it,… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your… — Menachem Mendel of Kotzk Copy Share Image
Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We need less travelling by jet plaes from congress to congress... but more kneeling and praying and pleading to God to have mercy on… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
