Mere Quotes
Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ the Son of God is entirely a matter of revelation.
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.
Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.
Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.
Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.
Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.
Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.
Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.
But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.
Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.
A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed.
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.
... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.
Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.
Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.
Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.
The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.