![It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.](/assets/img/quote-photos/its-incredibly-arrogant-to-pick-and-choose-which-incomprehensible-truths-we-embr.jpg)
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punishment
I think it (suspending aid) will be a punishment for the people, which we don't want. Omar Suleiman
punishment race treats
Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded. William J. Brennan
punishment purpose messages
I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society. Ujjwal Nikam
punishment adequate vices
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced. Samuel Johnson
punishment fit crime
Let the punishment fit the crime. W. S. Gilbert
punishment hands sin
Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand. William Cowper
punishment ideas halfway-there
The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there? Roger Ebert
punishment causes martyr
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. Saint Augustine
punishment mind disorder
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
arrogant art confess definitely felt five knew learned school studious studying supposedly value
I actually think that there is definitely a value in studying art at an art school. I myself went to an art school for five years and I have to confess that I don't use, right now, any of the things that I supposedly learned while I was there; if I learned anything at all. I was very arrogant and I didn't feel that I should be studious because I felt that I knew more than they did. Boris Vallejo
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I think it's arrogant for us to walk into a country where we are just beginning operations and tell that country how to run itself. Eric Schmidt
arrogant believe bit needs talking title win
It is a bit arrogant to believe that we will win the World Cup. We can win it but everything needs to go perfectly. We should not be talking about the title at the moment. Uli Hoeness
arrogant degree past
I think to one degree or another we have been arrogant in the past.
arrogant attempt fight state
I will fight Islander East's arrogant attempt to sidestep long-established state laws, violating constitutional guarantees, Richard Blumenthal
arrogant dislike diva either men
I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender. Robin Wright
arrogant charming attractive
Stop being so..." "Charming?Attractive?Irresistible? "I'm going with arrogant. Rachel Caine
arrogant film
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself. Peter Greenaway
arrogant would-be form
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy. Jonathan Frakes
redemption bounds
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. Walter Benjamin
redemption world needs
Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
redemption walking escalators
In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid. Amy Waldman
redemption machines wonderful
In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.
redemption littles
You have to be a little contrite to get redemption. Steve Madden
redemption mystery salvation
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation. Robert Boyle
redemption firsts righteous
Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed, Ravi Zacharias
redemption knows
We know the redemption must come. John Quincy Adams
redemption hell lost
And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe. John Milton