John Strachan Quotes

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

John Strachan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 12, 1778 - November 1, 1867

Topics

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In being strict, you were able to control.

Joe Jackson

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I used to take pride if my kids were playing basketball, and I'd be there, and I wouldn't say anything. People were obviously expecting me to yell and scream at the ref and at them and everything. I wouldn't say anything.

John McEnroe

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It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

Matt Taibbi

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I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.

Jean Pigozzi

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I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

Mercedes Lackey

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Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

Steven Pinker

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I belong to a generation that has seen the explosion of freedom, the celebration of freedom.

Miguel Angel Silvestre

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It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Mo Rocca

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Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

Jason Calacanis

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Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

Douglas Tompkins

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I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Donna Karan

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I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.

Dorothea Dix

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