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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• 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

• 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
  • Art

• 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

• 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
  • Frank
  • Appear
  • Martha

• The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!

  

  William James
  • Art
  • Kind
  • Hair

• Talk about fulfilling a campaign promise, ... M*A*S*H.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Promise
  • Campaign
  • Fulfilling

• It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Easy
  • Internet

• For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

  

  Petrarch
  • Death
  • Die
  • Comfort

• I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Games
  • Doe
  • Wayne

• I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Live
  • Challenge
  • Teach

• It just brought the band closer together as a unit. I think hearing it on the radio will be exciting too. Six months from now I'll have some crazy stories to tell. Just keeping our sanity and coming closer as a band is the story plus getting ready for the unknown out there.

  

  Dez Fafara Coal Chamber
  • Band
  • Story
  • Radio

• 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

• You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Desires
  • Fairytales
  • Briton

• I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order....when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction - to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Love
  • Patience
  • Doctrine

• First and foremost it is our opinion, or the opinion of an Anarchist, that government is despotism, government is an organization of oppression, and law, statute law is its agent. Anarchy is anti-government, anti-rulers, anti-dictators, anti-bosses and slave drivers. Anarchy is the negation of force; the elimination of all authority in social affairs; it is the denial of the right of domination of one man over another. It is the diffusion of rights, of power, of duties, equally and freely among the people.

  

  Albert Parsons
  • Government
  • Anarchy
  • Domination

• 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