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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.
grace imitation facility
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
grace sovereign sin
Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.
grace salvation ends
There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.
grace promise given
God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.
grace holiness saint
The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.
grace guilt debt
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. Aiden Wilson Tozer
grace world sin
Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.
grace benefits pleasure
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.
grace needs thirsty
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.
cain ifs my-own
I ain't askin' nobody for nuttin' if I cain't get it on my own. Charlie Daniels
cain earth abel
This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day. Anne Lamott
cain soda today
Herman Cain said, starting today, if you buy into his 9-9-9 plan, he'll throw in a free 32-ounce soda. David Letterman
cain united-states murder
The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches. Eric Schlosser
cain deputies ministers
I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain. Joan Kirner
cain beats
How do you beat Obama? Beat him with a Cain! Herman Cain
cain earth bears
He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth. George Bernard Shaw