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history disposition efficacy
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon
history narrative firsts
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
history important difficult
The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer.
history miracle doe
The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind....
history heaven republic
An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.
history catholic church
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote; and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church.
history empires palaces
While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.
history sawdust mills
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. Edith Sitwell
history principles human-nature
History is the discovering of the principles of human nature. David Hume
miracle church world
The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day. Charles Spurgeon
miracle doe saint
Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?
miracle foundation force
No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion
miracle raw-materials affair
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it. Arnold Bennett
miracle crowds looks
Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time. Kurt Vonnegut
miracle born
What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.
miracle affirmation action
Affirmation plus action equals miracles. Cheryl Richardson
miracle sometimes hard
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them. Chaim Weizmann
miracle dumb trying
It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go. Charlie Munger
doe authorship command
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it. Charles Caleb Colton
doe helping praying
If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.
doe christ please
If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.
doe convinced knows
I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe. Aiden Wilson Tozer
doe way holy
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.
doe easy hard
God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.
doe lines matter
But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? Chris Bohjalian
doe absence
Absence of failure does not constitute success. Chris Alexander
doe happy-endings
A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending. Chita Rivera