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

• 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

• 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

• Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

  

  Euripides
  • Reason
  • Terror
  • Wrestle

• Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Reason
  • Mystery
  • Rational

• While experiencing painful feeling, he seeks delight in sensual pleasure. For what reason? Because the uninstructed worldling does not know of any escape from painful feeling other than sensual pleasure. When he seeks delight in sensual pleasure, the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feeling lies behind this. He does not understand as it really is the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these feelings.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Reason
  • Pleasure
  • Danger

• Our houses are hosts to these creatures which are ultra-tiny (so small they were only first discovered in 1965) which live in human carpets, in our beds, on our food, floating in the air, in fact, they are omnipresent.

  

  David Bodanis
  • House
  • Creatures
  • Carpet

• Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Sexuality
  • Feminism
  • Marxism

• We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Night

• 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