Ephrem the Syrian Quotes

Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness.

Ephrem the Syrian

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• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Tennis

• The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
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  • Authority

• All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Opportunity

• As servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is our sacred responsibility to teach His standard of morality, which is the same for all of His children.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Children
  • Responsibility
  • Jesus

• They acknowledged the problem of market timing, but then allowed a favored client to engage in that harmful practice. The departure of these board members should sound an alarm for all those who serve in similar capacities.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Practice
  • Market
  • Acknowledgement

• You know, others keep saying that there are too many candidates in the race, and once it gets down to a two-person race that Trump can't get above that 30 to 35 percent that he's gotten both in the polling and in the elections and that the others will start pulling out that 65 the 70 percent not voting for Tromp. But there's absolutely no evidence that all of that vote will go to another candidate.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Trump
  • Evidence
  • Election

• After a few weeks, Frank did not appear to want Martha there, but she stayed. When Frank stopped speaking to her, it made no difference and they lived that way for twenty years.

  

  Olga Masters
  • Appear
  • Frank
  • Martha

• If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!

  

  George Clooney
  • Women
  • Said

• Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

  

  William Cowper
  • Religion
  • Needs
  • Heavenly

• To know life, one must love many things.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Knows

• I listen to all kinds of music, honestly.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Kinds

• Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God, in favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Truth
  • Inspired

• A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

  

  George Eliot
  • Imagination
  • Reasons
  • Desires

• Genius never desires what does not exist.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Genius
  • Exist
  • Desires

• Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • Desires
  • Doctrine
  • Brightness