Related Quotes
religious peculiar charity
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature. Charles Caleb Colton
religious war ambition
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base.
religious struggle blessed
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy! Charles Dickens
religious hallucinations apes
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. Charles Stross
religious children civilization
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
religious college pigs
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?
religious hype world
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. Charles Stanley
religious jesus thinking
Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus. Charles Spurgeon
religious teaching men
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity.
pests disease grows
And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware. David Sedaris
pests baths bores
The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep. Charles Bukowski
pests
How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering. Lorenz Hart
pests egotism
The pest of society is egotists. Ralph Waldo Emerson
disease herbs
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs. Chinua Achebe
disease flooding hope none pandemic planning preparing
We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready. Ellen Anderson
disease orderliness dirt
We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time. Cheryl Mendelson
disease saying scaring
What's scaring us now is the disease they are saying is coming,
disease bears sickness
A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion. Benjamin Franklin
disease herbs lack-of-knowledge
There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge. Avicenna
disease terrorism symptoms
Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease. Arundhati Roy
diseases opportunity scale treat tremendous
We've never done anything on this scale before. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world. James Hill
diseases opportunity scale treat tremendous
We've never done anything on this scale before, ... This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world.