#thorough

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#doctrine #exclusion #god #governing #life

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms. ↗

— Kevin Keegan

#because #enjoyed #had #i #my own

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#answers #desires #disappoint #expectation #gives

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#existing #gains #imagine #journey #leaders

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#behind #big #big story #business #context

I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people. ↗

— Hans Blix

#describe #honestly #i #i think #investigate

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#backwards #condition #further #greek #how

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. ↗

— George Eliot

#alive #beautiful #certain #certain things #feel

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#anvil #beats #cast #frame #furnace