Worthy Quotes - Page 39

• Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment. . . . And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good. . . . This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Punishment, Suffering And Death

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• Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

  John Mayer

  Emotional, Things In Life, Kind

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• The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Jobs, Believe, Profound

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• With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

  John Bright

  Reform, Favour, Ballots

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to a woman's differing relationships.

  John Piper

  Heart, Men, Way

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• We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.

  Sam Harris

  Struggle, Thinking, Iron

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• Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

  Philip Levine

  People, Advice, Who Cares

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• The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

  Voltaire

  Cat, Justice, Twenties

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.2544, e-artnow

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• I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me.

  Ryan Murphy

  Acceptance, Thinking, People

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• The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... 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

  Fire, Wrath, Spiders

  "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (sermon), Enfield, Conn., 8 July 1741

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• For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.

  Don Marquis

  Fashion, Brother, Passion

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

  Richard Steele

  Son, Men, Pleasure

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.125

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• A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His.

  William Law

  Judging, Excellence, Creation

  William Law (1974). “The works”

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• Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.

  John Denham

  Anger, Love Is

  Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.301

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• If you do not have a loving concern for the environment... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds, or the flowers, or the grain, or the animals... they will be destroying you.

  Seth

  Flower, Animal, Bird

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• Am I worthy in every respect of being
  imitated?

  David J. Schwartz

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.121, Penguin

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• Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his hands) the Marxist parties never fought for the man-worthy job itself.

  Paul Goodman

  Jobs, Party, Men

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

  Alanis Morissette

  Sunday, Church, Judgmental

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Book, Littles, Assassination

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everybody feels like a freak in some way at some time in their life. Or feels on the outside. And everybody is worthy of love.

  Erin Davie

  Way, Freak, Feels

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What the rest of the world knows about Mexico is what they see on films and the bad news they see on TV. We need to make films that are worthy of who we really are as Mexicans. We also need to make cinema that reflects the diversity in the region, so that Americans and Europeans know who Mexicans are, who Salvadorians are, who Cubans are, etc. We need to do it, and all we really need is support because we have the talent.

  Kate del Castillo

  Diversity, Support, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Engagement, Authority, Empirical Evidence

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• Attention with intention gets results worthy of mention.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Attention, Intention, Results

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• It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

  Donald Miller

  Character, Chinese, Gold

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• O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with the care of a child and its mother. How is it that I without any merit have come to this distinction of being certain that I am serving thy creature and thy most precious will? Oh, how gladly will I do so. Though the duty should be even more insignificant and despised, neither frost nor heat, neither drudgery nor labor will distress me for I am certain that it is thus pleasing in thy sight.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mother, Children, Rocks

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