Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.
Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 140
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
Angela Carter
If a person does this for just a couple of years and discovers that it just isn't for him, that's okay. At least he can move on knowing that he gave it his best shot.
Donald Ray Pollock
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
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Faith is knowing who God is and acting accordingly... God fights when we move.
Steven Furtick
The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.
Christian Boltanski
Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.
Charlie Pierce
If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him.
If you seek Him, you are absent from Him.
If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him.
If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him.
Ibn Ata Allah
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.
Lisa Delpit
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.
Jeremy Begbie
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
Lionel Blue
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
E. F. Schumacher
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O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
Among the principles of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah lie the attitude of peace and purity of their heart and tongue towards the Sahaba(Companions) of the Prophet (saw).
Ibn Taymiyyah
