Ellen G. White Quotes
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
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It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.
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I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating.
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One thing alone my heart requires, - one gleam of living light amid the ashes and the gloom; that into my cell of humiliation the flood of Divine pity should break, and keep aglow the openings of eternal hope, and sustain the hidden strength of an everlasting love.
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The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
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Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.
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Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
