Abolition Bible Quotes

#1. I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.

Rachael Taylor

#2. I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Ani DiFranco

#3. Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.

Timothy Keller

#4. For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery.

Ronald Reagan

#5. It seems that if I am afraid, then I am "stuck" with fear. But in fact I am chained to the fear only so long as I am trying to get away from it. On the other hand, when I do not try to get away I discover that there is nothing "stuck" or fixed about the reality of the moment.

Alan W. Watts

#6. Out at them, turning this way and that, his face cramped in an expression

Gregory David Roberts

#7. I took the right sow by the ear.

Robert Walpole

#8. Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

Bill Watterson

#9. To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet.

Pablo Neruda

#10. Don't let belief masquerade as knowledge. Truth is real, and not just a matter of personal perception: Search for it, dig for it, follow the evidence. The truth isn't free; you have to earn it, and when you do, it will set you free.

David F. Capps

#11. Show me what birds see. Take me above the clouds.

Unknown

#12. Sexy, to me, is the way you carry what you have. I have a big nose, but I rock it.

Justin Timberlake

#13. I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

Tupac Shakur