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The finer impulse of our nature.

Friedrich von Schiller

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

George Eliot

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Henry Miller

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

Henry S. Haskins

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Horace Mann

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Horace Mann

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

Kahlil Gibran

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Oliver Goldsmith

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Peter Cooper

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Rabindranath Tagore

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Robert Collier

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.

Sarah Doudney

We ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Thornton Wilder

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.

Walter A. Mueller

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

William James

Modern thinkers have rejected the very idea of objective morality: Darwin reduced morals to an extension of animal instincts; Freud regarded repression of impulses as the source of neurosis; and, Marx disdained morality as an expression of self-interest.

Charles Colson

496. A Cure for Complainers

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Robert Bruce got down on his knees and thanked God for that spider. Now, was the spider building a web in front of his hiding place a coincidence or Divine providence? Did the spider simply happen along to build its web or was it guided by a Divine impulse? Each of us must decide for himself or herself how we view life. When you had that bad accident and walked away unscathed, did you say, “Thank God!” or did you say, “Wow, I was lucky that time?” Life is a matter of interpretation, but the person ...

497. What's In a Name?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... “rewarding” him for giving the right answer, however. But Jesus is giving Peter a new identity as the disciple equipped to carry on the faith of the Way. Peter or Simon Peter as we call him was one of the most impetuous disciples. Quick to anger, impulsive at times, fearful and doubting at others, obstinate and outspoken, this fisherman was also extremely loyal to Jesus, even to a fault. He had many flaws, as we saw in his denying of Jesus during his trials. And yet, Jesus needed him to be able to ...

498. Contra Advice

Humor

Someone once said, "Distrust first impulses. They are nearly always right." And another has said, "Don't look before you leap. If you do, you will decide to sit down."

499. I Have Seen the Lord

John 20:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... of speculation. We do know he drove seven unclean spirits from her, but we have no scriptural evidence that the seven spirits had an effect on Mary Magdalene’s morals. What was not a matter of speculation, however, was Mary’s devotion to this humble rabbi. Impulsively she reached for him, but Jesus stopped her with the explanation that he had not yet ascended to the Father. Mary Magdalene will have to be content to hold him in her heart. That is exactly what she did. Later she would testify to his ...

500. When Storms Hit Home

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... he could bond with his son. As he said, “I had to be there for my son, so golf was the farthest thing from my mind . . . Trying to be a good husband, a good dad, was the most important thing.” (2) Good fathers and mothers have a natural impulse to protect their children and to serve as an example to them in tough times. I think it’s appropriate that our Bible text for today falls on Father’s Day. This is a story about the disciples caught in a terrible storm. They need courage. They need leadership ...

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Showing 476 to 500 of 517 results

The finer impulse of our nature.

Friedrich von Schiller

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

George Eliot

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Henry Miller

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

Henry S. Haskins

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Horace Mann

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Horace Mann

Kahlil Gibran

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Oliver Goldsmith

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Peter Cooper

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Rabindranath Tagore

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Robert Collier

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sarah Doudney

Thornton Wilder

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.

Walter A. Mueller

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

William James

Charles Colson

496. A Cure for Complainers

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

King Duncan

497. What's In a Name?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

498. Contra Advice

Humor

Someone once said, "Distrust first impulses. They are nearly always right." And another has said, "Don't look before you leap. If you do, you will decide to sit down."

499. I Have Seen the Lord

John 20:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

500. When Storms Hit Home

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

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