Mischiefs Of Faction Quotes & Sayings

Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall. — Marlena De Blasi

It's not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it's those who humble themselves. — C.J. Mahaney

Their kiss was like a paper airplane landing on the moon. — Tom Robbins

He that begins to live, begins to die. — Francis Quarles

It may be concluded that a pure democracy ... can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. — James Madison

Searching for a mentor is similar to searching for a spouse: you two need to share common values, concerns, experiences, communication style, and, of course, have time to invest into meaningful conversations with one another. — Anna Stevens

Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and switfly
descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to
uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock. — Jonathan Edwards

Thank God for daily grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

This process was also used on beautiful daggers with bifurcated blades, which look ahead to the Old Kingdom forked instruments known as pesesh-kef used in the Opening of the Mouth funerary ceremony. — Ian Shaw