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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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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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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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.
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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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Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
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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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I wish I could have a clone to do all the stuff that I don't like doing, like the red carpet stuff.
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
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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?
