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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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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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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The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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The team that I had built was all white dudes with the same perspective on things that was at times comfortable and easy, but we weren't as innovative as our competitors.
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She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires
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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?
