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61 " In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. &It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion. "
― Aristotle
62 " A Good Leader Promotes Peace,Not War.A Good Leader Is For The People,Not For Himself.A Good Leader Does Not Watch His People Suffer. "
63 " If you think it’s offensive that I call alleged biblical miracles ridiculous, you should ask yourself whether or not it’s ridiculous to insist that Muhammad flew on a winged horse. Or that the earth was hatched from a cosmic egg? Or that Xenu, the dictator of the Galactic Confederacy, brought billions of his people to earth 75 million years ago and killed them using hydrogen bombs? These are all religious beliefs of others, but that doesn't mean calling them ridiculous is an insult - it's an objective fact until proven otherwise. "
― David G. McAfee
64 " We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too. "
― , Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart
65 " But maybe that's one of the important things about America—that somebody would even ask a nobody like me what America means to her. In America, it matters what you think. You can bet that Hitler's not asking his people what Germany means to them. He's telling them what it means to him, and if it doesn't mean the same thing to them, they get shipped off to prison. Here at least a person has the right to complain and to vote and to complain some more if the fellow they vote for doesn't win. "
― Julia Watts , Secret City
66 " They play, said the old man. Every week the anglos play a game to celebrate who they are. He stopped, raised his cane and fanned the air. One of them whacks it, then sets off like it was a trip around the world, to every one of the bases out there, you know the anglos have bases all over the world, right? Well the one who whacked it runs from one to the next while the others keep taking swings to distract their enemies, and if he doesn't get caught he makes it home and his people welcome him with open arms and cheering. "
― Yuri Herrera , Signs Preceding the End of the World
67 " Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible. An undue love of Self leads to the most mon¬strous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war. "
― William Makepeace Thackeray
68 " Choosing the way of Christ not only means identifying with Christ, however; ‘it also means identifying with the stubborn, recalcitrant, and frequently offensive flock that he calls his own. . . .Yet as flawed as the people of God are, if the Lord is to be our God then his people must be our people too. "
― , Esther & Ruth (Reformed Expository Commentary)
69 " [The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him. We learn through ritual that the church is not just made up of individuals, but is a corporate body. It is not just about personal salvation, but a group of people, the people of God, who are bound to one another and to the faithful through the generations. (page 263) "
― Peter Enns , Exodus (The NIV Application Commentary)
70 " A worshipping Church or a prayer group is a magnet that draws the Lord and His people to connect with each other! "
― Gangai Victor , The Worship Kenbook
71 " God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises “before the nations.” We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers "
72 " Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, exciting and worthwhile though that is, but thought through and relished, planned and prepared -- an ultimately better way for the relationship to grow and at the same time a way of demonstrating what the relationship is all about. "
― N.T. Wright , After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters
73 " A leader can lose his people if he does not know the problems they are facing. "
74 " The Gospel presents us with the righteousness of Jesus Christ, who, in his earthly life, perfectly interpreted the word of his Father. In so doing he justified the fallible attempts of his people to interpret the word. The justification of our hermeneutics by the perfect hermeneutics of Christ is the motivation for us to strive for hermeneutical sanctification. "
― Graeme Goldsworthy , Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics: Foundations and Principles of Evangelical Biblical Interpretation
75 " Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job. "
― Laurell K. Hamilton , Narcissus in Chains (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #10)
76 " Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch "
― Gena Showalter , Lord of the Vampires (Royal House of Shadows, #1)
77 " ... but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them. "
― Olga Grushin , The Line
78 " Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. "
― Chaim Potok , My Name Is Asher Lev
79 " Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always " ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a " living sacrifice. "
80 " There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him. "
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon