#refer

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#amen #humbly #instead #kept #know

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#book #christianity #clergyman #converted #did

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#apt #error #men #prefer #prosperous

When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#day #fulfilled #great #only #promise

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#hear #i #like #neurotic #people

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#i #prefer #shelter #tend

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. ↗

— Demi Moore

#beautiful #beautiful woman #desperately #i #look

I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#assured #color #confidence #could #distinction

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life. ↗

— John Biddle

#almighty god #befall #dearer #disposal #glory

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#cleveland #come #first #indians #instead