Isabella Thoburn famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.
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I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.
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The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.
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I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last...
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An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?
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Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?
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Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.
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Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.
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Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.
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