Charles Spurgeon Quotes
Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
Quotes to Explore
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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Good design is good business.
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I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.
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Can man be free if woman be a slave?
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more personal relationships we form with others, the more we truly realize ourselves as persons. It has even been said that there can be no true person unless there are two, entering into communication with one another.
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Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.
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Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
