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Related FRANCIS BACON FRANCIS BACON AYN RAND W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM C. JOYBELL C. If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is t... MORRIS WEST CRAIG GROESCHEL CHARLES KINGSLEY ERIN HUNTER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON SOLOMON SCHECHTER SOLOMON SCHECHTER ST. AUGUSTINE C. JOYBELL C. MAX LUCADO This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control. RUFUS KING Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, bu... CHARLES BRADLAUGH PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA J. C. RYLE JOHN THE APOSTLE MARTIN LUTHER LEO ROSTEN JOHN DONNE SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE OS GUINNESS HENRY DAVID THOREAU CORMAC MCCARTHY One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not ... THADDEUS OF VITOVNICA PETER KREEFT JACOB BOEHME ST. AUGUSTINE JOYCE CARY When one is born again by faith in Jesus, he is given a new spirit man that wasn't there before - a ... BENNY HINN BLAISE PASCAL KARL BARTH The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever fo... EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS ST. AUGUSTINE A. W. TOZER Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature o... SYLVAN BARNET Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I can see no intellectual objection to ... DONALD O. SOPER JOHN DONNE If a man makes best use of whatever means he has at his disposal and also has the blessings of God t... SAM VEDA CRAIG GROESCHEL RICHARD CHEVENIX TRENCH BHAGAVAD GITA FRANCIS BACON And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him o... BIBLE MEISTER ECKHART WILLIAM LAW OSWALD CHAMBERS frThe Spirit comes gently and makes himself known by his fragrance. He is not felt as a burden for G... CYRIL OF JERUSALEM KARL BARTH For man to turn his back on God is to turn towards death; it involves ultimately the renunciation of... ROUSAS J. RUSHDOONY SAINT AUGUSTINE DURGESH SATPATHY ABRAHAM KUYPER MARTIN LUTHER SUNDAY ADELAJA There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This r... JOHN ORTBERG MARTIN LUTHER LACTANTIUS Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 The word "sinner" often proves a ... JOHN C. BENNETT JAMES RAMSEY ULLMAN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: /... BIBLE JOHN BUNYAN Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 The word "carnal" is ambiguous. "Flesh" mea... ADOLPH SAPHIR THOMAS à KEMPIS BLAISE PASCAL BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA R.C. SPROUL Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary The fall was simply this, that so... ANDREW JUKES FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY If God created everything, and if man is created in God's image, and if man can dream a fate greater... MICHAEL ANTHONY For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his o... GEORGE WHITEFIELD IRVING LAYTON SHANNON L. ALDER After our first parents had sinned, if God had changed His mind about the goodness of the human body... DAVID L. HATTON BERNARD CORNWELL VIKTOR E. FRANKL Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must
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FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study FRANCIS BACON SR. There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall... FRANCIS BACON SR. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior FRANCIS BACON SR. A prudent question is one half of wisdom. FRANCIS BACON SR. Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. FRANCIS BACON SR. Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercis... FRANCIS BACON SR. The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen as... FRANCIS BACON SR. Cure the disease and kill the patient. FRANCIS BACON SR. I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this un... FRANCIS BACON SR. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. FRANCIS BACON SR. That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactl... FRANCIS BACON SR. Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of st... FRANCIS BACON SR. Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f... FRANCIS BACON SR. A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation FRANCIS BACON SR. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him f... FRANCIS BACON SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. [Knowledge is] a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. FRANCIS BACON SR. Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the l... FRANCIS BACON SR. What then remains but that we still should cry for being born, and, being born, to die? FRANCIS BACON SR. Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress FRANCIS BACON SR. The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore... FRANCIS BACON SR. Time is the measure of business. FRANCIS BACON SR. When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had be... FRANCIS BACON SR. Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life FRANCIS BACON SR. Great hypocrite are the real atheists FRANCIS BACON SR. It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of oth... FRANCIS BACON SR. When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as ... FRANCIS BACON SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive coun... FRANCIS BACON SR. It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. FRANCIS BACON SR. Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and ... FRANCIS BACON SR. It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propo... FRANCIS BACON SR. In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of th... FRANCIS BACON SR. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great ent... FRANCIS BACON SR. Come home to men's business and bosoms. FRANCIS BACON SR. Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration ... FRANCIS BACON SR. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. FRANCIS BACON SR. The Trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker. FRANCIS BACON SR. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which... FRANCIS BACON SR. The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. FRANCIS BACON SR. Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and f... FRANCIS BACON SR. He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with... FRANCIS BACON SR. Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. FRANCIS BACON SR. Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. FRANCIS BACON SR. In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ... FRANCIS BACON SR. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. FRANCIS BACON SR. The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears. FRANCIS BACON SR. A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ab... FRANCIS BACON SR. God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. FRANCIS BACON SR. The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. FRANCIS BACON SR. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. FRANCIS BACON SR. Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. FRANCIS BACON SR. Money is a good servant but a bad master. FRANCIS BACON SR. Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than... FRANCIS BACON SR. The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicit... FRANCIS BACON SR. Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council thoug... FRANCIS BACON SR. Boldness is a child of ignorance FRANCIS BACON SR. The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the ... FRANCIS BACON SR. Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. FRANCIS BACON SR. He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ... FRANCIS BACON SR. The remedy is worse than the disease. FRANCIS BACON SR. Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the... FRANCIS BACON SR. I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. FRANCIS BACON SR. Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. FRANCIS BACON SR. I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils. FRANCIS BACON SR. There is superstition in avoiding superstitions FRANCIS BACON SR. The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. FRANCIS BACON SR. Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get y... FRANCIS BACON SR. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. FRANCIS BACON SR. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gr... FRANCIS BACON SR. Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you. FRANCIS BACON SR. Certainly it is a heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind to move in charity, rest in providence, an... FRANCIS BACON SR. Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. FRANCIS BACON SR. The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. FRANCIS BACON SR. The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. FRANCIS BACON SR. It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than ... FRANCIS BACON SR. Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, exce... FRANCIS BACON SR. Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, tha... FRANCIS BACON SR. It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that... FRANCIS BACON SR. In charity there is no excess. FRANCIS BACON SR. The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man ... FRANCIS BACON SR. In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. FRANCIS BACON SR. Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far... FRANCIS BACON SR. Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. FRANCIS BACON SR. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. FRANCIS BACON SR. The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it be... FRANCIS BACON SR. Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tom... FRANCIS BACON SR. The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused ma... FRANCIS BACON SR. Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid FRANCIS BACON SR. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. FRANCIS BACON SR. The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery FRANCIS BACON SR. All rising to a great place is by a winding stair FRANCIS BACON SR. It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the... FRANCIS BACON SR. Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. FRANCIS BACON SR. Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the... FRANCIS BACON SR. States as great engines move slowly. FRANCIS BACON SR. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. FRANCIS BACON SR. If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. FRANCIS BACON SR. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin wit... FRANCIS BACON SR. Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. FRANCIS BACON SR. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkl... FRANCIS BACON SR. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise FRANCIS BACON SR. Acorns were good until bread was found. FRANCIS BACON SR. Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not... FRANCIS BACON SR. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. FRANCIS BACON SR. If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and usi... FRANCIS BACON SR. Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. FRANCIS BACON SR. He doth like the ape, that the higher he clymbes the more he shows his ars FRANCIS BACON SR. Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend... FRANCIS BACON SR. Of great riches there is no real use, except in the distribution; the rest is but conceit FRANCIS BACON SR. Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confi... FRANCIS BACON SR. Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half FRANCIS BACON SR. It is impossible to love and to be wise. FRANCIS BACON SR. The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend. FRANCIS BACON SR. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god FRANCIS BACON SR. Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man FRANCIS BACON SR. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. FRANCIS BACON SR. Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for ... FRANCIS BACON SR. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his... FRANCIS BACON SR. Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. FRANCIS BACON SR. Houses are built to live in and not to look on. FRANCIS BACON SR. The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before. FRANCIS BACON SR. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv... FRANCIS BACON SR. Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more... FRANCIS BACON SR. It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that... FRANCIS BACON SR. We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. FRANCIS BACON SR. Rebellions of the belly are the worst. FRANCIS BACON SR. Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue FRANCIS BACON SR. 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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; ... 
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body;... 
At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings... 
It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life. 
One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears i... 
There will be three, kin of your kin..." Jayfeather's voice shook as he wondered if he could possibl... 
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin... 
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin... 
But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Bo... 
Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h... 
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear t... 
Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is n... 
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain ... 
If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his... 
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and th... 
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and th... 
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no... 
We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God;... 
Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 In his experie... 
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely ... 
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke. 
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. Go... 
In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and gra... 
Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ... 
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would den... 
If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so ... 
The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that... 
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need t... 
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is ... 
Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to ble... 
He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is fr... 
But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of
his own writings before his death... 
A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aw... 
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: When a man has had so much benefit from the gospel, as to kn... 
When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get o... 
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hatefu... 
God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosp... 
The portrait of his past was partially erased by God and he is searching for those erased portions. 
Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in c... 
We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first d... 
God Himself is a man of war and He teaches His children how to wage war 
For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His ... 
A man climbs the mountains because he needs to climb, because that is the way he is made, Rock and i... 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the prop... 
He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. ... 
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and tha... 
The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them w... 
How can we love a holy God? The simplest answer I can give to this vital question is that we can’t... 
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the tru... 
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the trut... 
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the trut... 
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image. 
Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust ... 
And what, by the by, is a yale?"
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is... 
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,... 
Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 Devo... 
When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to... 
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us e... 
The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true kno... 
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each... 
A prudent question is one half of wisdom. 
Wise men make more opportunities than they find. 
Boldness is a child of ignorance 