Alfred Edersheim famous quotes

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For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.
-- Alfred Edersheim

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Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
-- Alfred Edersheim

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God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.
-- Alfred Edersheim

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There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.
-- Alfred Edersheim

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So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.
-- Alfred Edersheim

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We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. If we knew why the Lord sent us this or that trial, it would thereby cease to be a trial either of faith or of patience.
-- Alfred Edersheim

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An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
-- Alfred Edersheim

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It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.
To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.

Alfred Edersheim famous quotes

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