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giving may novelty
Charles Caleb Colton Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.
giving enemy prudent
Charles Caleb Colton If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
giving credit world
Charles Caleb Colton Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
giving opponents talent
Charles Caleb Colton He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.
giving-up deep-water sea
Charles Dickens Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead
giving missionary missions
Charles Studd True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.
giving may gift-giving
Charles Stanley You may have the gift of giving.
giving-up believe belief
Charles Spurgeon I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.
people everyday passing-away
Charles Dickens You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.
people literature may
Charles Dickens May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
people words-of-wisdom facts
Charles Dickens Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
people coats holiness
Charles Dickens Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
people may medical
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
Charles Dickens A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
Charles Dickens My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Charles Dickens Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Charles Dickens Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
grace imitation facility
Charles Caleb Colton Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
grace sovereign sin
Charles Spurgeon Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.
grace salvation ends
Charles Spurgeon There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.
grace promise given
Charles Spurgeon God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.
grace holiness saint
Charles Spurgeon The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.
grace guilt debt
Aiden Wilson Tozer As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
grace world sin
Aiden Wilson Tozer Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.
grace benefits pleasure
Aiden Wilson Tozer Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.
grace needs thirsty
Aiden Wilson Tozer O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.