Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men...
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.
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When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.
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There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
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We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men...
