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As the pure knowledge of God disappears, nature too in its true character is disowned, and either exalted into the sphere of the Godhead or degraded to the sphere of a demoniacal power.
- Herman Bavinck
The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character and attributes. If this be true, then the common origin of all men is a necessity;
- Herman Bavinck
Culture, therefore, sinks into the background; man must first become a son of God before he can be, in a genuine sense, a cultured being.
- Herman Bavinck
If sin bears an ethical character, then redemption is possible, and conversion is in principle the conquest of sin, the death of the old and the resurrection of the new man.
- Herman Bavinck
I so loved the nobility of your character, your wisdom, your chastity, your spirit, and indeed every aspect of your life that many people have said to me: What are you doing?
- Hildegard of Bingen
We are meek in the way we follow and fierce in the way we fight. In this manner, gentle and fierce meet and are comfortable.
- Lisa Bevere
Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.
- Lisa Bevere
honor begins in the heart and works its way out until it is expressed through our actions.
- Lisa Bevere
The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.
- Christoph Waltz
We must look at the personality of Jesus and see him under various circumstances - circumstances not unlike our own - and then praise him by imitating him to the best of our ability.
- Mother Angelica
Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy. Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.
- James Cleverly
Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
- Jerry Bridges