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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
years focus proud
I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty. Carre Otis
years beliefs-and-values belief
Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before. Carol P. Christ
years another-year
Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. Carol Shields
years ideas six
You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years. C. S. Lewis
years littles said
Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".
years practice people
I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
years house able
Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.
years ideas important
I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working. Agnes Varda
years watches needs
I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.
tree remember remember-me
Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.
tree shade way
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. Charles Dickens
tree alive mulberry
I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive. Jane Austen
tree world this-world
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. Alan Watts
tree sun bigs
When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun. Chinua Achebe
tree lizards praise
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
tree pebbles branches
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me. Cheryl Strayed
tree fool fruit
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend. Chanakya
tree pity form
Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me. Charlaine Harris