We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEClergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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