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mistake power order
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms. Charles Caleb Colton
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing. Charles Stross
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. Charles Spurgeon
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
world surprise enough
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything Charles Dickens
world affection should
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
world lines facts
Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.
world crosses remedy
The world's one and only remedy is the cross.
world causes christ
Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.
world looks christ
There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.
world whole
The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is Alan Watts
world victim define-yourself
Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world?
world forget
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
doe authorship command
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
doe helping praying
If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.
doe christ please
If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.
doe convinced knows
I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe. Aiden Wilson Tozer
doe way holy
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.
doe easy hard
God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.
doe lines matter
But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? Chris Bohjalian
doe absence
Absence of failure does not constitute success. Chris Alexander
doe happy-endings
A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending. Chita Rivera