Edward Joseph Young Quotes
Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil.
Quotes to Explore
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The problem England have got is that if they don't win the group they will play the French and if they play them, they will be beaten.
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When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.
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Let today be the day you give up who you've been for who you can become.
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But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.
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The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.
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Churches typically argue is that God wants God's people to have a good life, and that a good life involves prosperity. This prosperity is not just emotional well-being, spiritual well-being, or physical well-being - it's also having good stuff. Having a nice house, a nice car, good clothing, etc. It's a package deal.
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I sometimes forget that my vision of the world is not remotely anyone else's.
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We think by feeling. What is there to know?
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One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.
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You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again.
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Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.
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I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
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All creatures are travellers. The most important journeys are the interior ones. The most important and the most hazardous.
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We need to create a free trade zone among different labs in Boston. Private benefit goes hand in hand with enlightened public interest.
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Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
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Life cannot teach if one is not able to overcome sufferings.
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Remember that life's length is not measured by its hours and days, but by that which we have done therein. A useless life is short if it lasts a century. There are greater and better things in us all, if we would find them out. There will always be in this world – wrongs. No wrong is really successful. The day will come when light and truth and the just and the good shall be victorious and wrong as evil will be no more forever.
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What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions.
