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order generosity brave
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. Charles Caleb Colton
order matter mystery
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.
order doubt sake
It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them. Charles Spurgeon
order waiting world
We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.
order bridges insane
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle. Alan Watts
order names knowing
Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.
order telescopes looks
The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.
order luxury long
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining. Alan Moore
order lust desire
In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.
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.
unseen alchemy dialogue
My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy. Cai Guo-Qiang
unseen accessories unforgettable
No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory Coco Chanel
unseen pendulums poetry-is
Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen. Carl Sandburg
unseen glimpse appearance
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. Anaxagoras
unseen want
I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image. Khalil Gibran
unseen doe servant
The best servant does his work unseen. Oliver Wendell Holmes
unseen-things giving comforting
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. Helen Keller
unseen today enough
Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough. J. R. R. Tolkien
unseen about-yourself conclusion
Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see. Guy Finley