Expulsive Power Quotes

#1. Puritan Thomas Watson said, "Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet." I think Scottish minister Thomas Chalmers, who preached on "the expulsive power of a new affection," would have added: Until Christ be sweet, sin will not be bitter.

Gloria Furman

#2. The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

Thomas Chalmers

#3. I used to measure the heavens
Now the Earth's shadows I measure
My mind was in the heavens,
Now the shadow of my body rests here

Johannes Kepler

#4. There was no bond, but she reached him in ways no one else ever had. "If you ever find your true mate," he said, "I won't allow you freedom." He didn't have such goodness in him.

Nalini Singh

#5. They know the outward shows of this life present but of the next life are they careless. Have they not consider the heavens and the earth and all that is between them but for a serious end, and for a fixed term? But truly most men believe not that they shall meet their Lord.

Elijah Muhammad

#6. For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.

Len G. Murray

#7. Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

Lucretius

#8. It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. You call someplace paradise,
kiss it goodbye

Eagles

#10. To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

John Darnielle

#11. Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Fulton J. Sheen

#12. For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

Pablo Picasso

#13. The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

Bertrand Russell