God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
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God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.
I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that has not also used something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity.
We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know.
I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.
True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.
From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.
You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about.
Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.
Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.
That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.
You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.
If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.
Don't worry that other people don't know you;_x000D_ worry that you don't know other people.
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