Noah Porter quotes
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“Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.”
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“Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.”
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“Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.”
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“Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect to the mutual relations of matter and spirit, of nature and of God.”
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“No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.”
-- Noah PorterSource : Noah Porter (1874). “Books and Reading, Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?”, p.13
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“Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.”
-- Noah Porter
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“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.”
Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan
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Source : Abraham Kuyper (1931). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.131, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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Source : Adrienne von Speyr (1995). “With God and with Men: Prayers”, p.22, Ignatius Press
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Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.411, Macmillan
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“My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.”
Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams”, p.95
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“I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass”
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