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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

God, Children, May

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
David Hume

Best, Corruption, Worst

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.
Johnny Cash

Life, God, Away

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
Maxwell Maltz

Feelings, Result, Level

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
William Ralph Inge

Mean, Prayer, Getting

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Win, Joy, Striving

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Elsa Schiaparelli

Life, Great, Happy

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg

Life, Human, Understand

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
Franz Kafka

Life, Fact, Appearance

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul

Life, Strength, Give

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Jean Paul

Pleasure, Variety, Mere

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
Xun Zi

Beautiful, Person, Him

God often gives nuts to toothless people.
Matt Groening

God, Often, Nuts

The law always limits every power it gives.
David Hume

Power, Law, Limits

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
Patricia Neal

Strength, Heart, Him

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy, Destiny, Perfect

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
Thomas Guthrie

Nature, Art, Grace

I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.
Daniel Radcliffe

Put, Big, Second

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Brian Eno

Religion, Chance, Actually

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
Ezra Pound

War, Real, Chance

There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Art, Give

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
Willie Aames

God, Patience, Heart

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Long, Action, Convinced

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.
Yuri Milner

Science, Amazing, Important

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fool, Human, Makes

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda

Hope, True, Person

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
David Seabury

Love, Work, Nature

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick

Experience, Knowledge, Greatest

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Living, Others

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
Ivor Novello

Change, Home, Evening

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