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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.
constitution should caution
The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution. Carl Levin
constitution court decided essential fee imposing indiana pleased programs school services
We are pleased the court decided the Indiana Constitution prohibits the Evansville school corporation from imposing a fee for programs and services that are essential to young Hoosiers' education. Fran Quigley
constitution subvert truth united wants
The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States. Louie Gohmert
constitution not-sure consent
I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best. Benjamin Franklin
constitution
We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it. Abraham Lincoln
constitution deliberate division emphatic extensive majority power preventing unbridled
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
constitution government great republic
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. Gerald R. Ford
constitution
Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection. Eula Biss
constitution continue county department engaged ensure equitable fair ferguson louis places work
Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities. Eric Holder
persuasion resources
Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . . Edward Gibbon
persuasion
I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience. Dwight D. Eisenhower
persuasion certain benevolence
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity. John Calvin
persuasion conviction convincing
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. Lord Chesterfield
persuasion convinced
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see. Herodotus
persuasion proverbs rudder ruled
He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.
persuasion companion
A companion's words of persuasion are effective. Homer
persuasion
I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion. Joan Armatrading
persuasion christ
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. John Owen