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self order should
Charles Caleb Colton Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
selfish heart character
Charles Dickens Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
Charles Stross I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.
self trouble needed
Charles Spurgeon What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.
self grace trials
Charles Spurgeon When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.
self white black
Charles Spurgeon Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.
self-esteem thinking self
Alanis Morissette I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.
self our-society tasks
Alan Watts Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.
suffering income cost
Charles Dickens Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering
suffering-pain expectations broken
Charles Dickens I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
suffering reign france
Charles Caleb Colton The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.
suffering earth sickness
Charles Spurgeon There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.
suffering saint seeds
Charles Spurgeon Suffering saints are living seed.
suffering miserable-person wealth
Charles Spurgeon No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
suffering disease way
Alan Watts We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.
suffering problem dies
Alan Watts If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
suffering sake christ
Aiden Wilson Tozer If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.
doubt information temples
Charles Caleb Colton Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.
doubt
Charles Caleb Colton Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
doubt chosen no-doubt
Charles Spurgeon There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.
doubt coats steps
Alan Bennett At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.
doubt teach i-can
Edmond Rostand Sans doute Je peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute. Without doubt I can teach crowing: for I gobble.
doubt religion mystery
David Hume The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.
doubt shadow source
Derek Fisher The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.
doubt ought happens
Harriet Beecher Stowe Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
doubted people year
June Daugherty We started out the year and people doubted us.