Grants Quotes - Page 30

• We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, America, Way

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• Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Grace, Fallen World, Definitions

  R. C. Sproul (2012). “God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children”, p.120, David C Cook

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• Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

  Plato

  Evil, Praying, Lord

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• We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories - that all is matter, or that all is Mind-will dispute the ground, until one is acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his campaign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Summer, Fighting, Ideas

  Mary Baker Eddy (1906). “Science Et Santé”

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• My poor soul! Sigh, pray and strive to take upon you the blessed yoke of Christ, and you will live on earth in a heavenly manner. Lord, grant that I may carry the light and goodly yoke, and I shall be always at rest, peaceful, glad and joyous; and I shall taste on earth of crumbs which fall from the celestial feast, like a dog that feeds upon the crumbs which fall from the master's table.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Christian, Dog, Blessed

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• But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who persecute you. Why did he command these things? So that he might free you from hatred, sadness, anger and grudges, and might grant you the greatest possession of all, perfect love, which is impossible to possess except by the one who loves all equally in imitation of God.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Hate, Love You

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• Provided they live a worthy life, both those who choose to dwell in the midst of noise and hubbub and those who dwell in monasteries, mountains and caves can achieve salvation. Solely because of their faith in Him God bestows great blessings on them. Hence those who because of their laziness have failed to attain salvation will have no excuse to offer on the day of judgment. For He who promised to grant us salvation simply on account of our faith in Him is not a liar.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Liars, Blessing

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• Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the importunity of the widow inclined a wicked and unjust judge to grant her petition (cf. Lk. 18:1 ff.). The Lord gave this parable for a special purpose ? to teach us not to faint, but to pray patiently. If an unjust judge was persuaded to grant the petition of the widow, how can God fail to incline His ear to our prayers, if we persist in imploring Him since He is the essence of lovingkindness?

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Prayer, Humble

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• It is the Paraclete Spirit, the "Comforter", who grants us the courage to take to the streets of the world, bringing the Gospel! The Holy Spirit makes us look to the horizon and drive us to the very outskirts of existence in order to proclaim life in Jesus Christ. Let us ask ourselves: do we tend to stay closed in on ourselves, on our group, or do we let the Holy Spirit open us to mission?

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Order, Groups

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• People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, People, Ordinary

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2008). “Man Alone with Himself”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Taken, Responsibility, Effort

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.222, Wizards of the Coast

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• The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sleep, Soul, Church

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426”, p.398, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Land, People, Support

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• Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis.

  Richard Lindzen

  Lying, Climate, Gains

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• What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

  Rabih Alameddine

  Cities, Purpose, Ifs

  Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Struggle, Kids

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• God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Law, People

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• In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

  Adolf Hitler

  Pride, Past, Blessing

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

  Charles Rangel

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

  "Advancing the Dream Through Education" by Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2013.

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• I believe God, through His Spirit, grants us love, joy, and peace no matter what is happening in our lives. As Christians, we shouldn't expect our joy to always feel like happiness, but instead recognize joy as inner security -- a safeness in our life with Christ.

  Jill Briscoe

  Christian, Believe, Joy

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• Today is [the feast of] Santa Rita, Patron Saint of impossible things - but this seems impossible: let us ask of her this grace, this grace that all, all, all people would do good and that we would encounter one another in this work, which is a work of creation, like the creation of the Father. A work of the family, because we are all children of God, all of us, all of us! And God loves us, all of us! May Santa Rita grant us this grace, which seems almost impossible. Amen.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Father, Impossible Things

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• Columbus was an Abraham, for he went out not knowing whither he went. Columbus was a Moses, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Only the man of faith is the man of power. Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. God grant that to-day in that bark we may be wafted by God's blessing, and may land at last on the shores of Heaven, where we shall sing a sweeter Te Deum than that which awoke the echoes on the soil of virgin America, or those amid the splendors of the court at Barcelona.

  Robert Stuart MacArthur

  Blessing, Men, Echoes

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• The new year has begun for us. / Now must God grant us with love / That we may be able so to begin it / That it may be of value for Love.

  Hadewijch

  New Year, Years, May

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.180, Paulist Press

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• S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.

  Matthea Harvey

  Rain, Eye, Simple

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• We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.

  Paul Gruchow

  Believe, Animal, Years

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