John Calvin Quotes

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

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• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Art
  • Empty
  • Thou Art

• When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

  

  Saadi
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Empty

• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Never
  • Promise
  • Promises

• When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Community
  • Justice
  • Empty

• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hope

• I'm empty, here at the edge of the sky.

  

  Du Fu
  • Sky
  • Empty
  • Edge

• I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

  

  Donald Glover
  • Empty
  • Glasses
  • Sitting

• I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Life
  • Death
  • Honor

• I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Space

• It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Children
  • Tears

• Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord." Carol Leifer

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Travel

• Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • She
  • Power
  • Scary

• The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Made

• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Spring

• Empty, what was to stop vagrants, or even.

  

  Pam Jenoff
  • Stop
  • Empty
  • Vargants

• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Back
  • Hearts
  • Empty

• How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Lonely

• The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • World
  • Insecurity
  • Hypocrisy

• When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Understanding
  • Learn
  • Compassion

• It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Universe

• for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Grief
  • Sorrow

• Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

  

  John Calvin
  • Empty
  • Hypocrisy
  • Satisfy