Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?


Zebulon Pike

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All of the heartache, the anger, the fear that this was as good as it was ever going to get, was wor...
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You live your life and continue with all of your normal activities. I'll keep you safe," he said ste...
APRILYNNE PIKE
Long ago, when faeries and men still wandered the earth as brothers, the MacLeod chief fell in love ...
SIGNE PIKE
No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a c...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?"
"You may ask."
"How old are you?"
"It's n...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
I believe the Greeks are most competitive during step show, ... Most groups spend more time preparin...
JENNIFER PIKE
Their symptoms trigger a self-perpetuating cycle that leads to a downward spiral in their functionin...
JENNIFER PIKE
Homecoming is a tradition that students look forward to every year. The events are fun, competitive ...
JENNIFER PIKE
You are not sure what to make of her, whether she is responsible for all this or she's innocent.
ROSAMUND PIKE
Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply...
APRILYNNE PIKE
If you honestly feel you have done something so terrible that you cannot be forgiven, then I am will...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its materi...
ALBERT PIKE
Tamani checkled. ‘If it makes you feel any better, it scares the daylights our of me on a regular ...
APRILYNNE PIKE
This person interrogating you is Chelsea, by the way. Hi, Chelse.
APRILYNNE PIKE
If a person lacks self-acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others ca...
JAMES ALBERT PIKE
With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the o...
KENNETH L. PIKE
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not p...
KENNETH L. PIKE
The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
KENNETH L. PIKE
Feast of James the Apostle Upon a little reflection one can see that no concepts which are restri...
KENNETH L. PIKE
But since cause and effect is under the personal control of God, He can introduce into the situation...
KENNETH L. PIKE
Assumptions based on faith are apparently an ever-present component in any system of belief -- wheth...
KENNETH L. PIKE
Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnograp...
KENNETH L. PIKE
He may effect us directly by His Spirit, with the force of a thunderbolt, or He may choose to woo us...
KENNETH L. PIKE
Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 "Help!" "Sorry! 'monmywaytochurch." ...
KENNETH L. PIKE
I did enter into this relationship thinking she and I could have a life together. I was dead wrong.
CHERYL PIKE BARLOW
The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is pa...
KENNETH L. PIKE
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total cohere...
KENNETH L. PIKE
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; ...
KENNETH L. PIKE
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
KENNETH L. PIKE
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or ...
KENNETH L. PIKE
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
KENNETH L. PIKE
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe unt...
KENNETH L. PIKE
This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing w...
KENNETH L. PIKE
Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
KENNETH L. PIKE