Chiefs Quotes - Page 25

• Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.

  Howard Fineman

  Men, People, Challenges

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• It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.

  Martin Luther

  Should Have, Principles, Three

  Martin Luther (1885). “Luther's Table-talk”

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• There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.

  Arthur Hopkins

  Sorrow, Done, World

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• The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Adventure, Giving

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• Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Pride, Receiving, Benefits

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1981). “On Loving God: Selection from Sermons”, Greenwood Press

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• Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Devil, Watches

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.154, Editora Dracaena

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• The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.

  J. C. Ryle

  Redemption, Christ, Ends

  "Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity".

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• What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Believe, Causes

  J.C. Ryle (1853). “A call to prayer”, p.30, Рипол Классик

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• Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Winning, Soul

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.15, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

  J. C. Ryle

  Mind, Church, Principles

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.56, Editora Dracaena

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• The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

  Iris Murdoch

  Good Life, Requirements, Life Is

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.112, Penguin

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• The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

  John Stott

  People, Atheism, Reason

  John Stott, Greg Scharf (2015). “The Challenge of Preaching”, p.13, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Matter, Spirit, Action

  "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel".

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• Let no man's place, or dignity, or riches, puff him up; and let no man's low condition or poverty abase him. For the chief points are faith towards God, hope towards Christ, the enjoyment of those good things for which we look, and love towards God and our neighbor.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Christian, Men, And Love

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• If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter and Paul, the supreme leaders of the pre-eminent company of the apostles? They are the fathers and guides of all Christians: apostles, martyrs, holy ascetics, priests, hierarchs, pastors and teachers.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Song, Teacher

  "The homilies".

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• There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief act of faith in this mystery is to look to Him who suffered the passion for us. The cross is the passion, so that whoever looks to it? is not harmed by the poison of desire. To look to the cross means to render one's whole life dead and crucified to the world.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Christian, Passion, Mean

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• If... God highly exalted Christ because He humbled Himself, suffered dishonour, was tempted and endured a shameful cross and death for our sake, how will He save, glorify and raise us up if we neither choose humility, nor show love to our fellows, nor gain our souls by enduring temptation (cf. Lk. 21:19), nor follow the saving Guide through the 'strait gate' and along the 'narrow way' leading to eternal life (Mt. 7:14)? To this end we were called, says Peter, the chief Apostle, ' Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow His steps' (I Pet. 2:21).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Humility, Cfs

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• A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.

  Moss Hart

  Money, May, Moral

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• The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while the free world has only its past achievements to show, being by its very nature unable to offer any detailed "plan" for further growth.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Country, Past, Differences

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• Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

  William Dampier

  Morning, Engagement, Afternoon

  William Dampier (1703). “A New Voyage Round the World”, p.147

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• The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

  Daniel Dennett

  Mistake, Tricks, Good Mistake

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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  I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

  Chief Joseph

  Believe, Men, Spirit

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• The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Good Love, Two

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• That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, Circles, Study

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.415, e-artnow

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• The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  John Stott (2013). “Christ in Conflict: Lessons from Jesus and His Controversies”, p.85, InterVarsity Press

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