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“It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.”

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John Humphrys is a renowned British author, known for his in-depth investigative journalism and interview programs. Born on August 17, 1943, his career spans across various fields including news, broadcasting, and writing. more

“It appears to me that, even within the recollection of living men, the Christian faith has come to be less and less regarded as a commanding and mighty power from heaven, a voice of authority, a law of holy life, but more and more as an easy going guide to future enjoyment, to a universal happiness and an indiscriminate salvation.”

Men Christian Law Heaven Easy Voice Holy Authority Universal Salvation Guides Enjoyment Recollection Christian Faith Easy Going Holy Life

Book:Christ in the Christian Year and in the Life of Man: Sermons for Laymen's Reading (Advent to Trinity)

Source: Christ in the Christian Year and in the Life of Man: Sermons for Laymen's Reading (Advent to Trinity)

“To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.”

Literature Gains Appreciate Noble Torn

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Consciously, distinctly, resolutely, habitually, we need to give ourselves, our business, our interests, our families, our affections, into the Spirit's hands, to lead and fashion us as He will. When we work with the current of that Divine will, all is vital, efficient, fruitful.”

Needs Giving Hands Spirit Interest Fashion Divine Affection Currents Our Family Efficient Divine Will

Book:Sermons for the People

Source: Sermons for the People

“Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.”

Men Hands Church Sleep White Enemy Worst Fields Bed Rings Ease Encounters Harvest Altars Stretching Wheat Worst Enemy Indolence

Author:Frederic Dan Huntington

“People feel anxious, especially when we have to wonder whether the president, Taiwan's democratically elected president, will be addressed as president. If he cannot even defend his own title, what can he defend for us?”

People President Wonder Anxious

Author:Tsai Ing-wen

“Taiwan is the Republic of China, the Republic of China is Taiwan.”

Author:Tsai Ing-wen

“Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.”

Men Made Great Men

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.”

Mean Has Beens Done Artist Discovery

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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