Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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EDWARD RUTHERFURD Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
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EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:...
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EDWARD ABBEY And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
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EDWARD TELLER Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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EDWARD WINDSOR There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON