Stillingfleet Mine Quotes & Sayings

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

Each moss,
Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank
Important in the plan of Him who fram'd
This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost
Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap
Which Nature's self would rue. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

Will you relinquish your heart, your life, and your body into his care - into our care - to be transformed, remade, and reborn? This night, unto forever, to be made immortal? — Tessa Dawn

Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

A story should, to please, at least seem true,
Be apropos, well told, concise, and new:
And whenso'er it deviates from these rules,
The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

Yes, my buggy is outside and my horse has been acting up. I wondered if you could come rub its skull and tell me if it's got a bad case of stubborn, or if it might be indigestion? — Regina Jennings

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. — Thornton Wilder

Peace and wickedness are far asunder. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

Now I am practicing as well as a criminal defense lawyer in handling appeals. The court of appeals appointed me to handle cases and although that's not trial work and I don't have to go to court, it kind of satisfies the need I have to practice still and I have transitioned into readiness not to be in trial anymore. It took a little while for me to get used to not doing it and I did miss it for a few years, but eventually I transferred into another life. — Marcia Clark

Error is but the shadow of the truth. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

Overwhelming: he could do anything he wanted. But the grand sum of anything-at-all was nothing-at-all. The topology of freedom offered no gradients to nudge him, no landmarks to guide him. — Ian Tregillis

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity. — Benjamin Stillingfleet