E. M. Forster Quotes
He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .
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I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.
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Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.
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Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
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Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
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It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
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I don't want to end up losing my soul.
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The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.
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No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.
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Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.
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Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.
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In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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I was born to end up alone.
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Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.
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A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.
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I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
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An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
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All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.
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If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.
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He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .
