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This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”
- Genesis 41:36
And oh, Fair plant, said he, with fruit surcharged, Deigns none to ease thy load, and taste thy sweet, Nor God, nor Man? Is knowledge so despised? Or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste? Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good; why else set here?
- John Milton
So it is that intelligent people often reserve their outrage almost exclusively for what they see as judgmental attitudes — - the one evil they are willing to indict with impunity.
- Charles Colson
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
Man does not have the power to begin by himself any change in spiritual things ... There is no limit or boundary within human nature beyond which we can find some last human reserve untouched by sin.
- GC Berkouwer
For nearly six thousand years, God has held you in reserve to make your appearance in the final days before the Second Coming of the Lord. . . . God has saved for the final inning some of His strongest and most valiant children, who will help bear off the kingdom triumphantly. That is where you come in, for you are the generation that must be prepared to meet your God. . . .
- Ezra Taft Benson
True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.
- Washington Irving
God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.
- Mark Twain
Worry is a waste of emotional reserve.
- Ayn Rand
In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; its business today will be to defend passionately human dignity and reserve.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Everything would be spoiled if we were to reserve Christ for the church while granting the world only some law, Christian though it may be.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
They were undoubtedbly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening 'other intelligence' ever be encountered.
- Frank Herbert