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Artificial methodizing of spiritual truths may make men ready in notions, cunning and subtile in disputations; but it is the Scripture itself that is able to "make us wise unto salvation.
- John Owen
Alexandra's fat bare toes, corned and bent by years in shoes shaped by men's desires and cruel notions of beauty
- John Updike
nowhere is the modern church more worldly than in its breathless idolizing of such modern notions as change, relevance, innovation and being on the right side of history.
- Os Guinness
For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
- Acts 17:20
Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.
- Philip Yancey
Obviously, Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.
- Philip Yancey
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
So we must decide that anyone may entertain contrary opinions about the notions, if he does not mean to uphold anything at variance with faith. If, however, anyone should entertain a false opinion of the notions, knowing or thinking that consequences against the faith would follow, he would lapse into heresy.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Half one's notions of other people were, after all, grotesque. They served private purposes of one's own.
- Virginia Woolf
There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Few people are logical. Most of us are prejudiced and biased. Most of us are blighted with preconceived notions, with jealousy, suspicion, fear, envy and pride.
- Dale Carnegie
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.
- Brother Lawrence