Philipp Melanchthon Quotes

#1. It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers.

Philipp Melanchthon

#2. Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.

Philipp Melanchthon

#3. When I told you I was the last man you'd ever tell your story to, I meant it. I'm not going anywhere.

Christy Pastore

#4. To get a clearer idea of the other half, allow me to paint a picture for you. Imagine, if you will, nothing. Now imagine that it's endless. Now triple that. This is a perfect description of the United States between the Denver International Airport and approximately Wrigley Field.

Doug DeMuro

#5. The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Nikola Tesla

#6. If you give your people halfhearted leadership, you'll get a halfhearted following. But if you invest yourself in them, if you have a heart for them, your people will return your investment with a heartfelt following.

Kevin Leman

#7. We must seek the truth, love it, defend it, and hand it down uncorrupted to our posterity.

Philipp Melanchthon

#8. The beginning is half of the whole.

Plato

#9. Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

Ramakrishna

#10. In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

John Ratzenberger

#11. The only way you can hurt the body is not use it,

Jack LaLanne

#12. I like to make fun of Jeffy [of Family Circus] the most, because I know the grown-up Jeff Keane personally and enjoy ridiculing him.

Stephan Pastis

#13. A good government had to guide its people, sometimes gently, sometimes strictly, just as parents did. It could allow certain freedoms, but in a style that suited the country.

Amy Tan

#14. Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

Philipp Melanchthon

#15. Then I drew in a breath, and my renewed will with it, lifted the rod in my right hand, murmured a phrase in a language I didn't know, and blew the tires off his fucking truck.

Jim Butcher

#16. Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

#18. In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

Philipp Melanchthon

#19. Darkness at Blacklands is scary.

Marianne Curley

#20. But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted.
"I know. Fear is only fear, though."
"And somehow you live without it."
"No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

Nicole Mones