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Abiding Quotes

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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
Jonathan Edwards

Authors on Abiding Quotes: Bill Johnson Oswald Chambers Rand Paul James Russell Lowell Theodore Bikel Henry Ward Beecher Andre Naffis-Sahely Nelson DeMille Edward McKendree Bounds Stephen Fry Rainer Maria Rilke George V. Higgins Burl Ives Mahatma Gandhi Panayiotis Zavos Shoghi Effendi Melanie Phillips William Schreyer James E. Talmage Denzel Washington Robert Murray M'Cheyne Tony Robbins Theodore Epp Herbert Wind Anthony Burgess Gene Robinson Emmeline Pankhurst Stephen King Ted Nugent Kenneth Clarke Brent Weeks Zhuangzi Paul Broun
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.
Charlotte Mason

3.
Being Irish,
he had an abiding sense of tragedy,
which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats

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We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions.
Shoghi Effendi

5.
The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.
Oswald Chambers

6.
The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.
George V. Higgins

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The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.
George Orwell

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In terms of creation, I have never thought of suiting any system or abiding by any rules. In this respect I have remained free. The necessity has grown, as we have gotten bigger, to think about commercial aspects of the business more and more, because of the responsibility we have toward our staff and our factories.
Rei Kawakubo

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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
Vera Brittain

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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.
Socrates

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Ultimately, the goal of personal Bible study is a transformed life and a deep and abiding relationship with Jesus Christ.
Kay Arthur

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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.
Rand Paul

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Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith.
Sam Shoemaker

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Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.
Wayne LaPierre

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...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.
Emmeline Pankhurst

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Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.
Gerard Butler

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Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
Rick Perry

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The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.
Steve Stockman

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Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.
Brent Weeks

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Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.
Umar

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The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives.
Doug Peacock

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They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.
Arjuna Ardagh

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Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible.
Leo Baeck

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The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.
Zhuangzi

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The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.
Vladimir Nabokov

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Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states.
Shantideva

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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Charles Spurgeon

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We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.
Panayiotis Zavos

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All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.
Bill Johnson

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Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle.
Warren W. Wiersbe

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Developing the capacity for clear light dreams is similar to developing the capacity of abiding in the non-dual presence of rigpa during the day. In the beginning, rigpa and thought seem different, so that in the experience of rigpa there is no thought, and if thought arises we are distracted and lose rigpa. But when stabliity in rigpa is developed, thought simply arises and dissolves without in the least obscuring rigpa; the practitioner remains in non-dual awareness.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

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While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.
Thorstein Veblen

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There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.
Edward Abbey

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One of the greatest hinderances of abiding in God is the lack of ability to say NO to people and opportunities
Mike Bickle

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It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.
Denzel Washington

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Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their economies into barbaric freeloaders, all simply to further their nefarious ends.
Andre Naffis-Sahely

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There is no abiding success without commitment.
Tony Robbins

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All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.
Martin Luther

41.
It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.
Steve Martin

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There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.
Aleksander Kwasniewski

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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
Kate Atkinson

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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
Eudora Welty

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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
Theodore Bikel

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Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.
Bill Johnson

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Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.
John Keble

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Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.
Rob Bishop

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They are fuelled by an ideology that itself is non-negotiable and forms a continuum that links peaceful, law-abiding but nevertheless intensely ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other.
Melanie Phillips

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To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.
Ronald Reagan