Nathaniel Culverwell Quotes

See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality - that comes with a pruning - knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.

Nathaniel Culverwell

• Heart
• Religion
• Morality
• Core

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• There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Why

• I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Moral

• The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Heart
  • Understanding
  • Should

• How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Heart
  • You
  • Hell

• Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Night

• If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Religion
  • Spirit
  • Believers

• I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Heart

• Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

  

  Anna Julia Cooper
  • Heart
  • May
  • Pretty

• I don't harbor any anti-male feeling in my heart.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Heart
  • Feeling

• There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

  

  Keith Miller
  • People
  • Heart
  • America

• It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

  

  Jann Wenner
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Fun

• Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

  

  Shakira
  • Writing
  • Heart

• I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Character

• I can't even tell anyone how it feels when I'm acting, I don't mean to say that I don't have to try. But there's something in my heart that explodes, and I feel like I understand. When I'm acting, I feel like so in control and so centered. This is something that I solely get from acting and music. It's like love itself.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Control

• I hate the treadmill. I hate it. You really don't have to be on it that long, something like 20 or 30 minutes. It's all about getting your heart rate up.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.

  

  Plutarch
  • Heart

• I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Water
  • Loss

• The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Time
  • Truth

• If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Friends
  • Enemy
  • Needs

• People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Presence

• The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Power
  • War
  • Law

• See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality - that comes with a pruning - knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.

  

  Nathaniel Culverwell
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Morality