Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
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Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
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I know what it's like to feel hopeless and to feel like you're not good enough just because of where you're from. I know what it's like to be profiled and to be abused by the police. I know what it's like to be racially profiled, treated unjustly and abused by the police just because of how you look.
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
