John Calvin Quotes

Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

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• A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Faith
  • Hate
  • Person

• Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Limit
  • Dogma

• Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

  

  Lynne Cheney
  • Children
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Women
  • Decision
  • Military

• I'm just looking to make good movies and looking to be as good as I can be in them and that's about it. But I feel much more comfortable doing a comedy, but the fact that I got to try a few dramas, I feel I've tested myself a little bit.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

  

  Burt Lancaster
  • Long
  • Age
  • Curiosity

• He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Proud
  • Need
  • Lie

• Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Philosopher
  • Tragic
  • Cast Off

• The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed.

  

  William James
  • Science
  • Brain
  • Evolution

• It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Problem
  • Creation
  • Boundaries

• It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Accomplished
  • Aims
  • Surmounted

• Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Unhappy
  • Mouths

• If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Life
  • Want
  • Death

• As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called 'universal mathematics'.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Science
  • Light
  • Stars

• Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Night
  • Melancholy
  • Candle

• The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Beings
  • Human Mind
  • Conceptions

• By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Working
  • Productive
  • Cake

• Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Actor
  • Being
  • Someone

• Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

  

  John Calvin
  • Faults
  • Word Of God
  • Preached