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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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I think there's even a chance that R&D and innovation budgets might be increased during Donald Trump Administration and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.
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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?
