The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God.
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NIK RIPKEN THE INSANITY OF GOD Be careful for nothing, but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your ... BIBLE Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 Let any ... A. W. TOZER To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the gre... H. A. IRONSIDE The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo... KATHERINE VUCICEVIC Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is "the fear of the Lor... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If death is all about parting with body then immortality is about being dead when alive. AKSHMALA SHARMA Put your mind to it and you will do it. This is how the impossible become possible SOTONYE ANGA There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. 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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I would like to see all persons no matter what they're sexuality be ordained as clergy as elders as ... DEE MILLER I heard his story and I thought, 'My God, this is a great subject for a film,' TAYLOR HACKFORD After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nat... GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of ... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO We still tell Jonathan stories. It's not a taboo subject. But there are times it's very intense. We ... WILLIAM ETTERLING There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. ERICH FROMM The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; fo... S. T. COLERIDGE Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not start... 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JONATHAN SWIFT The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. JONATHAN SWIFT I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. JONATHAN MILLER For the rest, Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e... JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. JONATHAN WESTOVER I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations , JONATHAN KOZOL What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. JONATHAN SWIFT One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ... JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men... JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk. JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t... JONATHAN RABAN I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib... JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a... JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly. JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see. JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh... JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse w... JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte... JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r... JONATHAN EDWARDS Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr... JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ... JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,... JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter. JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster. JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult. JONATHAN GASH