#merely

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#authority #christ #civil #derive #divine

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#being #doing #expanding #goes #i

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. ↗

— Dean Inge

#democracy #disadvantage #experiment #government #instead

Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#faith #lives #loses #merely #our

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. ↗

— Arna Bontemps

#anyone #colored #critic #dare #how

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#assert #deserved #did #folly #healthy

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspirations #certain #clash #competitive #culture

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#merely #prayer #simplest #turned #wish

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#may #merely #more #perfectly #property