John Calvin Quotes

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

John Calvin

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• Cor, love a duck. And also Lawks-a-mercy. I said that inwardly, but outwardly I said, "Blimey, and also, what larks.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Said
  • Mercy
  • Ducks

• Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

  

  Plato
  • Love
  • Power
  • Access

• Thich Nhat Hanh the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went out and felt the ills of the community around you. Instead of retreating to a monastery, you were out in the streets working. And he's been a great help to me, just reading his book, so I don't feel helpless about what I can do about all the violence around me.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Book
  • Community
  • Reading

• They must needs go whom the Devil drives.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Needs
  • Devil
  • Drives

• It is our collective responsibility to help the helpless, house the homeless, mother the motherless, love the unloved, and care for the uncared.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Love
  • Responsibility
  • Care

• I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

  

  Juan Gris
  • Make
  • Abstract
  • Concrete

• We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.

  

  Chris Mooney
  • Itself
  • Reflexes
  • Predators

• One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."

  

  Albert Azaryan
  • Body
  • Said
  • Arms

• I think we can build democracy in Pakistan. But it will take time. And it will be a Pakistani democracy. Not one that's imposed by...someone else.

  

  Fatima Bhutto
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Democracy

• Monks realize well that when the consciousness of one person is raised, the whole of humanity is raised; when the quality of life of one improves, all improve. Or, to put it in another, more biblical, way, the increased health and vitality of any one cell vitalizes the whole Body of Christ.

  

  Basil Pennington
  • Health
  • Humanity
  • Monk`s

• “You’ll know,” Judith said. “If you ever see him again, you’ll know it’s him because the world will right itself

  

  Courtney Milan
  • World
  • Right
  • See

• A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is

  

  George Alagiah
  • Really
  • Sophisticated
  • Reminder

• I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Alone

• If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Book
  • Study
  • Logic

• Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

  

  William Whewell
  • World
  • Science
  • Ancient

• In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated, but whole and complete in itself; or because it is the most capacious and therefore best suited for that which is to contain and preserve all things.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Perfect
  • Universe
  • Astronomy

• For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

  

  John Calvin
  • Astronomy
  • Denied
  • Wisdom Of God