Leon V. DePoncins famous quotes

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  • Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

  • The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

  • Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

  • In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

  • To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

  • Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.

  • To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

  • English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

  • Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.

  • Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.