Ebenezer Erskine Quotes
So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully. So we compromise. We do some of what we should, thus removing the stigma of disobedience. But we refrain from the most difficult or objectionable or uncomfortable part, and thus try to get the best of both worlds.
Ebenezer Erskine
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That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
Pat Buchanan
I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.
Kate Upton
The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.
Florence Nightingale
What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they the Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston Astrodome all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
Barbara Bush
But when mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
Alexander Pope
Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.
Leo Tolstoy
There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.
Marianne Williamson
Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
Kate Williams
I was always an outcast, even in my family.
Krysten Ritter
We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.
J. I. Packer
So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully. So we compromise. We do some of what we should, thus removing the stigma of disobedience. But we refrain from the most difficult or objectionable or uncomfortable part, and thus try to get the best of both worlds.
Ebenezer Erskine
