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Jonathan Edwards4 quotes
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire. — Jonathan Edwards · 1741The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others. — Jonathan Edwards · 1834A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of heaven and earth? — Jonathan Edwards · 1734The heart is like a viper, hissing, and spitting poison at God. — Jonathan Edwards · 1736Martin Luther King, Jr.3 quotes
We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1968Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; (Go ahead) sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well." — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1967The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided man. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1961John Winthrop2 quotes
We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are on us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world. — John Winthrop · 1630We must bear one another's burdens, we must not look only on our own things but also on the things of our brethren. — John Winthrop · 1630Benjamin Hoadly1 quote
Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written, or spoken laws; it is He, who is truly the Law-giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote, or spoke them. — Benjamin Hoadly · 1717Harry Emerson Fosdick1 quote
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick · 1933Henry Ward Beecher1 quote
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher · 1887John Donne1 quote
It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal. — John Donne · 1621John Robinson1 quote
The Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. — John Robinson · 1620John Wesley1 quote
Slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness." — John Wesley · 1788Paul Tillich1 quote
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God. — Paul Tillich · 1965Pope Benedict XVI1 quote
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. — Pope Benedict XVI · 2005Pope Francis1 quote
The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness. — Pope Francis · 2014Pope John Paul II1 quote
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. — Pope John Paul II · 1995Theodore Parker1 quote
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one... But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. — Theodore Parker · 1853William Sloane Coffin1 quote
Even if you win a rat race, you're still a rat. — William Sloane Coffin · 1965