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To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.
I've had so many letters from people saying I've inspired them to take up riding, and that's an amazing feeling.
According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.
How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.
Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.
She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue. Butno , she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.
I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy.
I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.” - Will Herondale
I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.
If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90's? There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.
A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'
My dyslexia means I can't read for long periods or the letters start moving around on the page, giving me headaches.
I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.
Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.
In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of the light Abstracted all the letters of the void.
I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.
I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.
This letter really touched my heart. Sabrina says when she lost all her hair during chemo, she wore the cap I gave her.
I didn't realize how famous I got since I went to prison. I got fan letters, but I didn't realize it blew up like that.
Her handwriting was curious small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).
Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.
I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.
There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.
MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.
Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them.
To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.
I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me.
For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.
It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.
I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.