It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.
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It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.
I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.'
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.
With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.
Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible
We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.
What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before.
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine.
It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.
The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.
Difficult takes a day_x000D_ _x000D_ Impossible takes a week_x000D_ _x000D_ I do this in my sleep
Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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