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Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire: Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Topic: Clouds
Author: Bible
Communism means barbarism.
Topic: Communism
Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Author: Jane Howard
Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God's promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . . .
Topic: Sin
And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.
Topic: Pansies
I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.
Topic: Communism
Small Latin, and less Greek.
Topic: Linguists
Author: Ben Jonson
I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for me. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.
It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the world-wide disintegration of the human family, the prospect before us could easily fill us with alarm and despondency, if we were not sure first of the absolute sovereignty of God who (I speak reverently) knows what He is doing in conducting this enormous experiment that we call life.
Author: J B Phillips
This is a devil, and no monster. I will leave him; I have no long spoon.
Topic: Devil
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Topic: Gossip
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -.Dr.Karl Menninger.
Topic: Health
O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?
Topic: Ceremony
Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 God is always present and always working towards the life of the soul and its deliverance from captivity under flesh and blood. But this inward work of God, though never ceasing or altering, is yet always and only hindered by the activity of our own nature and faculties, by bad men through their obedience to earthly passions and by good men through their striving to be good in their own way, by their natural strength and a multiplicity of holy labours and contrivances. Both these sorts of people obstruct the work of God upon their souls. For we can cooperate with God no other way than by submitting to the work of God, and seeking, and leaving ourselves to it.
Author: William Law
Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public affairs go best when the laws have much attention and the orators none.
Topic: Oratory
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Topic: Ambition
Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.
Topic: Excellence
Author: Perry Paxton