John Calvin Quotes
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
John Calvin
Quotes to Explore
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We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.
Barack Obama
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Sometimes in politics and even in life you need to take the tough and difficult decisions which you know would be good for you and the country in the medium and long term
Najib Razak
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If I don’t speak truth I can’t seek truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
Pat Conroy
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My father always would say, 'My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister', but it’s not what I wanted to do. I would say, 'No, Papa, I will never go into politics.' As I’ve said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me … But I accepted the responsibility and I’ve never wavered in my commitment.
Benazir Bhutto
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Everywhere I go, every city, they're always like, 'What's in the water in Canada? What's in the water in Toronto?'
Alessia Cara
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in the foolishness of pride, that our manifold blessings are due not to God's goodness, but to our own wisdom and virtue. Too many of us have been so drunk with self-sufficiency as no longer to feel the need of prayer.
Ezra Taft Benson
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A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
John Calvin