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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Probably the most cold-hearted thing I ever did. There was this spider in my shower - and I'm usually very kind to all of the creatures of the world - and you feel very vulnerable when you're naked, and I didn't really want to be near this spider he was kinda big and gnarly looking. The only thing that I could reach in the shower was this hairspray. So I hairspray-ed this spider to death, which was awful. I felt like such a jerk. It was really, really harsh.
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Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.
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Joseph's vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
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In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody -- from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung -- can say with any confidence that he is not an Anglican. Its weaknesses are that nobody pays much attention to it and very few people attend its functions.
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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?
