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biblical sunshine years
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me. Agnes Repplier
biblical winning men
The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire. Charles Spurgeon
biblical civilization miracle
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will. David Mitchell
biblical years data
The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty. David Deutsch
biblical thinking years
A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions. Carl Sagan
biblical dull sake
There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less. Aiden Wilson Tozer
biblical trouble walk-by-faith
Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble.
biblical rose divine
The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority. Bruce Barton
biblical grace purpose
The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace. C. J. Mahaney
religion christianity know-yourself
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all. C. S. Lewis
religion crime thousand
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Charles Caleb Colton
religion atheism knees
I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'. Susan B. Anthony
religion
I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go. Tracy Chapman
religion stressed magnificence
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.
religion whole department
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
religion church want
We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. Chief Joseph
religion
Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose. Michel Onfray
religion said wells
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. Kurt Vonnegut
important world ifs
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you? Aaron Swartz
important-values people levels
And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people. Charlie Gonzalez
important humour irrational
Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant Charlie Chaplin
important persons knows
It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now. Charles de Lint
important attention want
Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important. Charles Stanley
important culture missions
Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values. Brian Chesky
important aging seems
As we get older, things seem less important. Brian Cox
important culture popular-culture
Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.
important say-anything
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. Brian Eno