Charles Grandison Finney Quotes
Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.
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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
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Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
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There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
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With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate.
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To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.
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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.
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Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?
