John Calvin Quotes
The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love.
Quotes to Explore
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
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I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.
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Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.
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Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.
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We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,-scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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What I've learned is the power of a compelling vision.
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It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.
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The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.
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I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.
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I hate when people have food in their mouths and they don't swallow before they talk. Like, they store it in their cheek when they talk to you. It drives me nuts.
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I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.
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That's one of the reasons I'm vegan. Death terrifies me. I don't want to impose death on anyone else.
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I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears.
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There's not a lot of good movies being made.
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Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.
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The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love.
