John Calvin Quotes
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
John Calvin
Quotes to Explore
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Planned Parenthood 'is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.' (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).
Pat Robertson
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As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, 'Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!'There was no answer. There had never been an answer.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.
Karl Popper
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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud
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In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'
Marcus Aurelius
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.
William Shakespeare
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Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.
William O. Douglas
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True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.
Walter Scott
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When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.
John Shelby Spong
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Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
John Calvin
