Mary Astell Quotes

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

Mary Astell

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• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Time
  • Country
  • Why

• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hand
  • Son
  • Same

• I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Eyes
  • I Love
  • Holidays

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Father
  • North Carolina

• Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • God
  • Mind
  • Help

• My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • Father

• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Up
  • God
  • Art

• Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because, if you have a problem with women, drugs, or whatever the case may be, the only person that can fix that problem is God.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • God
  • Women
  • May

• When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Work
  • Father
  • Band

• I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Moment

• Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Nothing
  • Without

• It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Eyes
  • Moving
  • Goal

• Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Men
  • Children
  • Morning

• God is the one who chooses our rulers

  

  Katherine Harris
  • God

• You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself. My father, despite the fact that he's been dead for over 25 years, he's been a huge influence on me.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Father
  • Guy

• Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

  

  Michelangelo
  • God
  • Create
  • Fret

• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Better
  • Excellence
  • Striving

• I grew up two train stops from where A Tribe Called Quest grew up, and one stop from Nas.

  

  Nora Lum
  • Up
  • Stop

• The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

  

  Mary Astell
  • God
  • Father
  • Eyes