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church moments despise
The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her. Charles Spurgeon
church heirlooms persecution
Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.
church doctrine traps
The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.
church would-be doing-good
The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.
church conviction repentance
What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power? Aiden Wilson Tozer
church attention pay
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
church done today
In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.
church locals local-church
A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.
church watches praying
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilized example expect message send society strong
We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody. John Wilson
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
conducting mine people
The people who were inspecting the mine will not be the people conducting the investigation. Ellen Smith
conduct patient quality related
unprofessional conduct not related to the quality of patient care.
conduct county either election join position share spend
We're in a position where we either spend well over $100,000 to conduct our own election or we join with the county and share in the election cost.
conduct criminal means
We're making criminal enterprises look to different means to conduct their business. We see it as a desperation move.
conduct debate invite respect sponsors welcome
We respect the prerogative of debate organizers to conduct the debate sponsors as they see fit. We would welcome Russ Potts if the organizers wanted to invite him. B. F. Skinner
conduct explain family fortunate members rather
We're so fortunate that we can now conduct an investigation into how this thing got going rather than have to explain to the victims' family members why something like this could have happened. I don't know what we would have done if something like this had really happened.
conductors god orchestra rolling seen stop stopped technique time
So many times, I've seen conductors that, every time they have a thought, they stop the orchestra and say it, and I can see the orchestra rolling their eyes and saying, 'Oh, God, he stopped again.' So there's a technique to rehearsing. Joshua Bell
conduct example life personal poor powerful
Should a person who's the most powerful person in the world conduct his personal life in such a way that would be a poor example to our children? Ross Perot
conduct create message sends serious wrong
Short-term suspensions for egregious conduct create a serious problem. It sends the wrong message to officers.
freedom butterfly deny
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies. Charles Dickens
freedom tyrants mind
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
freedom water leaving
As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil. Alan Watts
freedom disappointment ego
Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. Chogyam Trungpa
freedom nice air
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.
freedom democracy
Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told. Dave Barry
freedom inquiry sake
There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom. Byron Katie
freedom thinking
What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.
freedom-of-speech important
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization. Ai Weiwei
marriage stars wife
My wife, the star I steer by. David McCullough
marriage party talking
As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.
marriage remains engines
Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented. Caitlin Flanagan
marriage want married
When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married. Cary Grant
marriage mass potential terrorism weapons
The potential marriage of weapons of mass destruction with terrorism is everyone's nightmare. Condoleezza Rice
marriage men village
As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor. William Shakespeare
marriage carnival-rides carnivals
Marriage isn't a carnival ride. Aisha Tyler
marriage kids grandchildren
I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much. Bob Newhart
marriage rocks long
A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together. David Reuben
ministers caught prime
Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me. Brian Clough
minister next prime seems start
Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationship,
minister prime serious stable
The Prime Minister is still in a serious but stable condition.
minister prime
I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician. Bel Powley
minister
I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India. Farooq Abdullah
ministers
One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident. Nicola Sturgeon
minister people prime private quite sold understand
When the prime minister sold his shares, people didn't understand it was a private matter. We were quite off-message at first.
ministers
If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?
minister ought paid particular represent special work
In the community, in the African-American community, one person ought to say something, and that is the minister. The minister is paid by the people. He doesn't work for a big company. He doesn't represent a particular special interest.
movement reputation articles
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. C. L. R. James
movement excited
I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again. Bryan Clay
move people politics standing
The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in. Arnold Schwarzenegger
moved
We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.
movements stuff
There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.
move stopped
We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul, Abdullah Abdullah
moved
[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler. Benedict Cumberbatch
movement painting illusion
I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting. Cecily Brown
movement
We have to get some movement on it shortly, David Walker
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.
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!
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.
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.
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.