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christian years rivers
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants. Carol P. Christ
christian cutting men
If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work. C. S. Lewis
christian virtue faithfulness
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."
christian mean practice
A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as it was applicable in one's own particular circumstance. Not in an idiotic sense -- it doesn't mean that every Christian should grow a beard, or be a bachelor, or become a travelling preacher. It means that every single act and feeling, every experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, must be referred to God.
christian circles fire
Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?
christian real confused
Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map.
christian humility pride
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.
christian running men
Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.
christian book views
My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules enforced by her on her own members." --about the only statement i agree with in this book
enemy interest permanent
There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests. Carol Moseley Braun
enemy said guides
You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.
enemy pressure ordinary
Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.
enemy territory world
Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.
enemy thank-god dies
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies. Agnes de Mille
enemy i-can my-friends
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! Charlotte Bronte
enemy may weapons
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy. Charles de Lint
enemy interesting-characters fellows
Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own. Charles Dickens
enemy want ifs
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. Charles Caleb Colton
subjects
I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history. Bruno Tonioli
subjects
Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them. Elizabeth Bowen
subjects picks ifs
Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer. Barry White
subjects known all-things
That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject. Arthur Schopenhauer
subjects throughout wellbeing
The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be. Saint Ignatius
subjects
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. Annie Dillard
subjects
Death is not my best subject. Judd Nelson
subjects wild-creatures creatures
A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own Jay Griffiths
subjects knows
She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it. Oscar Wilde