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• Do not despise any man, however poor he may be; but behave with full respect and kindness to every well-intentioned man, especially to the poor, as to our members worthy of compassion - or, rather, to members of Christ - otherwise you will cruelly wound your soul.

  John of Kronstadt

  Kindness, Men, Compassion

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• When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Philosophy, Eye, Thinking

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• It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.

  Jerry Bridges

  Doubt, Important, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.15, NavPress

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• I know you have the capability to understand right from wrong because you hate people who harm children. Well, why not despise people who harm animals? It's hypocritical! Why protect one and violate the other when neither one wants or deserves the abuse? They just wish it would end. Stop praising the innocence in children then ignoring or making fun of the innocence in animals.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Children, Fun, Hate

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• God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it any more than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

  Max Lucado

  Evil, Stupidity, Succeed

  Max Lucado (2003). “Just Like Jesus Devotional: A Thirty-Day Walk with the Savior”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.

  Blaise Pascal

  Hate, Men, Good Man

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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• Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Heart

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• Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Religious, Hate, Islamic

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• Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wall, War, Heart

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• I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Love, Regret, True Joy

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.74, Ballantine Books

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• From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with this outlook. All disenchantment is to me a malady, which, it is true, certain circumstances may render inevitable, but which none the less, when it occurs, is to be cured as soon as possible, not to be regarded as a higher form of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Simple, Soul, May

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• But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands.

  Stefan Zweig

  Errors, Numbers, Important

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• To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us His will, is the first step toward practical godliness. To recognize that the Bible is God's Word, and that its precepts are the precepts of the Almighty, will lead us to see what an awful thing it is to despise and ignore them.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Mind, Awful, Scripture

  Arthur W. Pink (2002). “Sovereignty of God”, p.225, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

  John Calvin

  Heaven, Earth, May

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life". Book by John Calvin, 1550.

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• There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations....What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Ignorance, Army, Suffering

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• You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hate, Men, Avarice

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• Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

  Bill Vaughan

  May, Flattery, Acceptable

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• There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Men, May

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• Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

  Agatha Christie

  Things To Do, Courses, Havens

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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• Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christian and a gentleman to appear to despise filthy lucre, whatever his secret opinion of it might be.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Christian, Money, Children

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.23, Vanderbilt University Press

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• If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

  Virgil

  Race, Demise, Arms

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• Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

  Charles Mackay

  Sage, World, May

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”

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• Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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