What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.
She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.
But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.
At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine.
Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.
Christ the Lord is risen to-day, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.
To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered what they had heard about astronomy, and the great size and distance and possible habitation of those orbs. . . . [We] persuade ourselves that the power of the starry heavens lies in the suggestion of astronomical facts.
I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People ask how I can play with all those rings, and I reply, Very well, thank you.
I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.
What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply. "The kind that turns you into my husband. " She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. "What kind would you like?" He smiled ruefully. "A fast one.
Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?': Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness.
Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer. . . prayer. . . prayer.
You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.
A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []
Smile is a good reply to the dark world.
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.
Fields' reply: He'd think I was a sissy.
I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: "You have to fight fire with fire" so that I could reply, "That's funny-I always use water. "
