#uses

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#causes #collapse #conditional #conditional love #cornerstones

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#america #either #europe #europeans #few

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#babies #buddhists #cannibalism #disgust #feed

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! ↗

— Billy Sunday

#backsliding #cast #causes #church #conversion

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#cannot #causes #church #convey #dangerous

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#born #developed #field #geniuses #grasses

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#dangerous #does #even #fixing #idea

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#campuses #centers #college #college campuses #crisis

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#geniuses #ten #up

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. ↗

— Edwin Armstrong

#ignorance #know #people #things #trouble