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When the world's people look to the "church," they will find "Christians" without Christ. They will find a church that no longer looks to Jesus and says, "There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."41 In fact, they will hardly mention the real Jesus. Instead, they will honor a "good person" who was wrongfully executed and "died before His time.
— Terry James
In Hebrew, His name is Jesus, in Greek, Soter, in Latin, Salvator; but men say Christus in Greek, Messias in Hebrew, Unctus in Latin, that is, King and Priest.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 1: The reason why God has no name, or is said to be above being named, is because His essence is above all that we understand about God, and signify in word. Reply to Objection 2: Because we know and name God from creatures, the names we attribute to God signify what belongs to material creatures, of which the knowledge is natural to us.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Our present condition, is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect Independance contending for dependance.
— Thomas Paine
When we profess God's name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.
— Thomas Watson
The glory we give God is nothing else but our lifting up his name in the world, and magnifying him in the eyes of others. Phil 1:10. Christ shall be magnified in my body.
— Thomas Watson
Whatever voice spoke him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity. a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath.
— Cormac McCarthy
Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
— Dale Carnegie
To recall a voter's name is statesmanship. To forget it is oblivion.
— Dale Carnegie
Come, said my Soul Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after death invisibly return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants resuming, (Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,) Ever with pleas'd smiles I may keep on, Ever and ever yet the verses owning — as, first, I here and now, Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name
— Walt Whitman
There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest.
— Oscar Wilde
SIX WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU PRINCIPLE 1 Become genuinely interested in other people. PRINCIPLE 2 Smile. PRINCIPLE 3 Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. PRINCIPLE 4 Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. PRINCIPLE 5 Talk in terms of the other person's interests. PRINCIPLE 6 Make the other person feel important—and do it sincerely.
— Dale Carnegie