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There were giants in the earth in those days… mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
- Anonymous
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
Satan casts out Satan, it is only to enter afresh in a mightier, though more hidden power. Nothing can avail but this, that the new nature in its divine humility be revealed in power to take the place of the old, to become as truly our very nature as that ever was.
- Andrew Murray
It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits.
- John Calvin
I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.
- Frederick Douglass
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
the old ego will always prefer an economy of merit and sacrifice to any economy of grace and unearned love, where we have no control.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Comfortable people tend to see the church as a quaint antique shop where they can worship old things as substitutes for eternal things.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
- William Temple
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
- William Wordsworth
Ring out the old, ring in the new,Ring, happy bells, across the snow:The year is going, let him go;Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The lion on your old stone gatesIs not more cold to you than I.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson