William Morley Punshon Quotes

Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.

William Morley Punshon

• Generations
• Sinner
• Maintenance
• Multitudes
• Enticement

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• I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ's 'words and example.'

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Christ
  • Blood
  • Sinner

• Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Imagine

• The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • May
  • Future
  • Today

• Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Death
  • Movies

• What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Inspiration
  • Generations
  • Presidency

• There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.

  

  Don McLean
  • Reality
  • Lost
  • Space

• Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.

  

  Machado de Assis
  • Generations
  • Next
  • Sigh

• You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Might
  • Generations
  • Jokes

• All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Generations
  • Productions

• I've kind of touched on the youth generation, what the concept of fame, what does it actually, really mean.

  

  V V Brown
  • Mean
  • Doe
  • Generations

• I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Lost
  • Generations

• In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

  

  Virginia Foxx
  • War
  • Past
  • Causes

• Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Learn
  • Generations

• Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

  

  William Allen White
  • People
  • Today
  • Intrigued

• I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Responsible
  • Generations
  • Consider

• Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Poverty
  • Imagine
  • Generations

• You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Saint
  • Sinner

• When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Christ
  • Died
  • Sinner

• I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older generation, the parents, whose faith has been something concrete that has guided them through a specific set of hurdles and circumstances.

  

  Stephen Karam
  • Parent
  • Circumstances
  • Generations

• More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us . . . the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • Important
  • Government
  • Challenges

• Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.

  

  William Morley Punshon
  • Generations
  • Sinner
  • Maintenance