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giving may novelty
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite. Charles Caleb Colton
giving enemy prudent
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
giving credit world
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
giving opponents talent
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.
giving-up deep-water sea
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead Charles Dickens
giving missionary missions
True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads. Charles Studd
giving may gift-giving
You may have the gift of giving. Charles Stanley
giving-up believe belief
I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place. Charles Spurgeon
giving heaven littles
There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.
description elsewhere
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. Jane Austen
description distortion used
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. Anthony de Mello
description subjects objects
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. Gaston Bachelard
description
The description is not the described. Jiddu Krishnamurti
description multiple
Multiple descriptions are better than one. Gregory Bateson
description chains
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. John Fowles
description explanation
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. Ludwig Wittgenstein
description observation left
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. John Archibald Wheeler
description
A picture is never anything but its own plural description. Roland Barthes