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christian memories home
The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they changed. The coming of Christ and Christians actually freed them. They were no longer bound to people's expectations but could now become anything that they could imagine themselves to be. They are still here, walking among us. We just don't recognize them anymore. Charles de Lint
christian father names
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. Charles Dickens
christian courage firsts
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. Charles Caleb Colton
christian white house
My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
christian hate envy
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
christian mind sorrow
Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.
christian lying thinking
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.
christian regret mean
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!
christian years games
Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.
degradation poverty
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation. Charlotte Bronte
degradation world insult
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women. Dorothy Richardson
degradation poverty doe
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation. George Bernard Shaw
degradation sooner-or-later subjects
The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Ken Follett
degradation horror wedlock
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. Marquis de Sade
degradation mediocrity sake
To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity. Fulton J. Sheen
degradation remember film
The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience. George Stevens
degradation corruption results
When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
degradation done compare
You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love. Love. Suzy Kassem
way comedy desperate
In this desperate way, I started many a comedy. Charlie Chaplin
way opponents hardest
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents Charles de Gaulle
way too-much odd
There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
way
Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.
way sometimes bigger
It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
way-in-life expectations romance
There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.
way littles common
We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.
way liberation discovering
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. Alan Watts
way reverse
You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other. Alan Moore