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giving missing way
There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me. Charles Taylor
giving important different
Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen. Charles de Lint
giving tea cups
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs. Charles Dickens
giving joy cry
Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
giving may novelty
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite. Charles Caleb Colton
giving enemy prudent
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
giving credit world
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
giving opponents talent
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.
giving-up deep-water sea
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead
may oppression begets
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
may invention condensation
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
may maintaining conquer
Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
may riches talent
From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
may cups bliss
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
may venture able
As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.
may modern poet
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
may finals tomorrow
To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning. Charles Spurgeon
may certain made
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
his-love responsible crosses
The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross. Aiden Wilson Tozer
his-love ifs
If there is equality it is in His love, not in us. C. S. Lewis
his-love love-poems donne
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems Carol Ann Duffy
his-love lord broads
The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.
his-love
To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.
his-love demand natural
Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
his-love firsts holiness
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness. Oswald Chambers
his-love failing christ
God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail. Jerry Bridges
his-love sovereignty love-always
God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.