Privilege Quotes - Page 21

• Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Way, Ministry

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• What a great privilege it is to be here

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

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• You don't have to do everything right as a parent, but there is one thing you cannot afford to get wrong. That one thing is prayer. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. There is nothing you can do that will have a higher return on investment. In fact, the dividends are eternal.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Perfect Parents, Return

  "Praying Circles Around Your Children". Book by Mark Batterson, 2012.

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• There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

  Bill Bright

  Men, Calling, Helping

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• Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Promise, Delight

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• Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human

  Tim Hansel

  Miracle, Everyday, Special

  Tim Hansel (1995). “Keep on Dancin': Daily Readings to Celebrate Life”, Chariot Family Pub

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• Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform meaningfully all our lives

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Men, Race

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.45, Routledge

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• Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin to ask whom heaven by grace inspires, even this minute portion of praise must not be withheld from Him. It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed under His guidance and government.

  John Calvin

  Men, Heaven, Grace

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.132, Lulu.com

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• Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

  J. I. Packer

  Adoption, Offers, Highest

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• It is our privilege to know that we are saved.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Saved, Knows

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• Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

  Stephen Charnock

  Religious, Nature, Son

  Stephen Charnock (1840). “The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock”, p.102

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• WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Change, Government, Justice

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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• It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

  Charles Edison

  Men, Promise, Groups

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• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Years, House, Heaven

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• Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever He should, after this, deny or withhold from His people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them.

  John Flavel

  Spiritual, Son, People

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• Whatever else the true preaching of the word would need to include, it at least would have to be a word that speaks from the perspective of those who have been crushed and marginalized in our society. It would need to be a word of solidarity, healing and love in situations of brokenness and despair and a disturbing and troubling word of justice to those who wish to protect their privilege by exclusion.

  Letty M. Russell

  Healing, Justice, Perspective

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• Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

  George Wein

  Home, Rhode Island, Islands

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• Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

  Seth Godin

  Initiative

  Seth Godin (2012). “V Is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone”, p.26, Penguin

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• People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have the right to take your place. Such privilege should astonish you less, however, than your ability to commence building it down here, your ability, in fact, to adorn it at every moment of your existence. Remember the saying 'as above, so below', and contribute to this by making 'as below, so above'.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Men, People, Desire

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• Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Knowing, Individuality, Action

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• We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Pain, Lord, Torture

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• To sustain our leaders is a privilege.

  Ronald A. Rasband

  Leader

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• Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!

  Ernest Holmes

  Giving, Birth, Limitless

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.113, Penguin

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• Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

  Gerda Weissmann Klein

  Survival, Painful, Burden

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• In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.

  Mark Mirabello

  Suggestions, Complaining, Citizens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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