Edersheim Alfred Quotes & Sayings

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes. — Bob Ney

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it. — Utada Hikaru

An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony. — Alfred Edersheim

For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. — Alfred Edersheim

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. If we knew why the Lord sent us this or that trial, it would thereby cease to be a trial either of faith or of patience. — Alfred Edersheim

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God. — Alfred Edersheim

God is the God of the present as well as of the future ... even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil. — Alfred Edersheim

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self. — Alfred Edersheim

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers. — Alfred Edersheim

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. — Josh Billings

The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious. — Winston S. Churchill

Storytelling entails weaving a narrative out of the disturbing, strange, inspirational, and unremarkable detritus of life. By picking among the litter of our personal experiences to select evocative anecdotes to weave into a narrative format, we reveal which of life's legendary offerings prove the most sublime to us. Acts of omission are momentous. Our narration of personal sketches divulge what factoids inspire us or do not stir us into action, or contain obdurate truths that prove virtually impossible to crack. — Kilroy J. Oldster