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  • I submit my tongue as an instrument of righteousness when I make it bless them that curse me and pray for them who persecute me, even though it "automatically" tends to strike and wound those who have wounded me. I submit my legs to God as instruments of righteousness when I engage them in physical labor as service, perhaps carrying a burden the "second mile" for someone whom I would rather let my legs kick. I submit my body to righteousness when I do my good deeds without letting them be known, though my whole frame cries out to strut and crow.

    Crow   Body   Legs  
  • The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

  • The greatest gift God gave us is also our greatest curse, which is the free will. We are made in God's image, the Bible says, which means we have the ability to love him or not love him, to reject him or not reject him.

  • When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four quarters of the earth, and HAVE RECEIVED THEIR RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity.

    Children   Earth   Four  
    Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”
  • The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.

    Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.82, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
  • In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.

    Women   Race   Woe  
  • Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

    Memories   Loss   Curse  
    Song: The River, Album: The River, 1980
  • We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

    Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.
  • It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks

    Eye   Dark   Light  
    Song: In The Beginning
  • I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

    Letter to Henry Lee, 13 Apr. 1790
  • Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

    Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”
  • The Tiger's Curse Series has everything my heart could desire in a fantasy: exotic locations, two dashing princes, good vs. evil, the promise of danger and adventure lurking around every corner—and did I mention two dashing princes? Warning: these books may cause you to forget anything else exists until you've turned the last enthralling page. And then you'll want to start all over again!

    Book   Heart   Adventure  
  • I think I have pretty good taste in the projects I choose to take on. It's a blessing and a curse - I certainly could have worked a lot more if I wasn't as selective, but I just can't bring myself to spend two years of my life slaving away on some project I'm not really enthused about.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance. He would talk about flowers and moonbeams - he cringed - if it meant maintaining this delectable inner peace. "Is there a way to break your death-curse?" Ashlyn asked. So much for flowers and moon-beams.

    Hurt   Flower   Moon  
    Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.158, HQN Books
  • It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.

    Daniel Taylor (1986). “The myth of certainty: the reflective Christian and the risk of commitment”, W Pub Group
  • The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

    William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1570
  • I'm Italian and we curse a lot when we talk.

    Italian   Curse  
  • The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.

  • All this is a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it helps people establish what they value; they understand the sort of ideas they identify with. The curse is that they aren't challenged in their views. The Internet becomes an echo chamber. Users don't see the counterarguments.

    Blessing   Echoes   Views  
    Source: www.thenation.com
  • The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

    Blessing   Motive   Curse  
  • Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

    Healing   People   Teens  
    Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.125, Octagon Press Ltd
  • The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.

    Irving Greenberg (2011). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.282, Simon and Schuster
  • Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”
  • The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

    Men   Land   Soul  
  • Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.

    Block   Nice   Eye  
  • What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To say the word Art, it's almost like a curse on art. I do know that I want to try to get closer to myself. The older I get, the more indications I have about what it is to get closer to yourself. You try less hard. I just want to be.

    Art   Thinking   Trying  
  • How often God visited the Jewish Church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets! How often have we seen Churches, and even whole denominations, cursed with a curse, because they would not wake up and seek the Lord.

    Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.24
  • The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge

    Taken   Talking   People  
    "Drew Brees talks 'Madden NFL 11'". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. April 30, 2010.
  • I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

    People   Fame   Curse  
    "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature". Interview with Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.
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