Farquhar McGillivray Knowles famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.
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He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
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God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
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God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.
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I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.
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Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.
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