August Tholuck Quotes

I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have become ever more and more convinced that the way to the heart does not lie through the head; and that the only way to the conversion of the head lies through a converted heart which already tastes the living fruits of the gospel.

August Tholuck

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• Conversion

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• The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

  

  Hans Berger
  • First
  • Order
  • Waves

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Red

• I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Done
  • Situation
  • Random

• In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Think
  • Team

• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Myself

• Selling online is one channel, but it's not the only channel.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Selling
  • Only
  • Online

• It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Change

• I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • College
  • Baseball

• We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • School
  • Education
  • Year

• As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Me
  • Husband

• It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

  

  Salman Rushdie

• You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Heart
  • Stupid

• Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.

  

  Quintilian

• It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

  

  Sophocles
  • Learn
  • Weakness
  • Wisest Man

• If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Truth
  • Respect
  • Remembered

• Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • America

• If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Doubt

• I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have become ever more and more convinced that the way to the heart does not lie through the head; and that the only way to the conversion of the head lies through a converted heart which already tastes the living fruits of the gospel.

  

  August Tholuck
  • Heart
  • Head
  • Conversion