Stonewall Jackson (Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson) Quotes
Our men fought bravely, but the enemy repulsed me. Many valuable lives were lost. Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
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Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.
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I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
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Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
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Saints do not die. It is their lot, To die while on this earth to all that God is not.
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The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept 'God.'
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The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
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Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.
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If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.
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I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.
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The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.
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Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.
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I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.
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If I had a motto, it would be, 'Believe in God, fear the church'.
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But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.
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Women are not to be hit. They're to be hugged and caressed.
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
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I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.
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Our men fought bravely, but the enemy repulsed me. Many valuable lives were lost. Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.
