Race Quotes - Page 106

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

When you cross the line and you've won the race, to me, it's an amazing feeling.

I have always tried to drive a car that was better than me, and race against people who were better than me. If you are surrounded by people who are as good as you, or not as good, how are you going to learn?

The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answer was 'Me?

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

The specific trigger for me was when the President [Barack Obama] put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. Why I got into the race - it just seemed unconscionable that the Democrats were leading the charge.

Grace... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.

Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.

The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.

Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God, and of their own souls, and salvation. Most certainly, altho' we cannot say, That if men improve their natural abilities as they ought to do, that grace will infallibly follow, yet there will not one sinner in all the reprobate world, stand forth at the day of judgment, and say, Lord, thou knowest I did all that possibly I could do, for the obtaining grace, and for all that, thou didst withhold it from me.

Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we see it now - because racism was created to justify slavery to build the capital for capitalism - and back in the day they respected talent over race. We had an African Pope in the late 5th century, we had an African Emperor of Rome, and early church Fathers were black.

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.

The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.