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?

Charles Grandison Finney

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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.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Help
  • Reason
  • Feel

• For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Nervous

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Parents
  • Reason
  • Child

• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sin
  • Paradise
  • Return

• My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • Always

• The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Reason
  • Same
  • Often

• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reason
  • Step
  • Where

• For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Love
  • Creatures
  • Bearable

• 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.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Reason
  • Kill
  • Warlike

• Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Important
  • Long
  • Reason

• To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • World
  • Madness
  • Sane

• One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Reason
  • Dog
  • Morality

• A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Men
  • Sin
  • Doe

• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Madness
  • Existed
  • Great Minds

• Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

  

  Aristotle
  • God
  • Soul
  • Light

• No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Madness
  • Excellent

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Reason
  • Speaker

• Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

  

  William H. Gass
  • House
  • Dream
  • Wonder

• Britain has had a very honourable tradition of literary sci-fi - H. G. Wells, John Wyndham, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock - but for whatever reason, they have never really been given the time of day on screen.

  

  Richard Stanley
  • Reason
  • Tradition
  • Whatever

• Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

  

  Sean O'Faolain
  • Gay
  • Pessimist
  • Pitiful

• Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Reason
  • Sin
  • Creatures