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

• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I think that one day I won't have any kind of... sort of, or it will be either way, I won't have to think about anything. But at the moment, god I think probably because of what I do and the nature of how it is, I'm all over the place all of the time.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • God
  • Thinking

• A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.

  

  Eileen Atkins
  • God
  • Soul
  • Allegory

• The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Life
  • Character
  • Prince

• A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Life
  • Anger
  • Dignity

• 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