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“I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.”

Book Saws Fate Despair Misfortunes Decree Irrevocable

Author:Jeremy Collier

“Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.”

Men Trying Doe Self Law Force Sacrifice Vain Spontaneous Decree Fraternity

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“Real divorce takes place without a decree.”

Real Divorce Decree

Author:Margaret Deland

“A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!”

Men May Ocean Fishes Crowds Vain Providence Shells Decree Cockles

Book:Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica: Or, The Doctrine of the Church of England Consonant to Scripture, Reason, and Fathers : in a Discourse Upon the Thirty Nine Articles Agreed Upon in the Convocation Held at London MDLXII

Source: Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica: Or, The Doctrine of the Church of England Consonant to Scripture, Reason, and Fathers : in a Discourse Upon the Thirty Nine Articles Agreed Upon in the Convocation Held at London MDLXII

“Without Virginia, as we must all acknowledge--without her Patrick Henry among the people, her Lees and Jefferson in the forum, and her Washington in the field--I will not say that the cause of American liberty and American independence must have been ultimately defeated--no, no, there was no ultimate defeat for that cause in the decrees of the Most High; but it must have been delayed, postponed, perplexed, and to many eyes and hearts rendered seemingly hopeless.”

Source: Oration on the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: Delivered in the Music Hall, at the Request of the City Government, Boston, 4 July, 1876

“You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.”

Womens Rights Sexually Decree

Book:The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality

Source: The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality

“It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.”

Shows Studios Decree

Author:Jim Beaver

“men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.”

Knows Men Humans Littles Different Real Humanity Standards Arguing Defined Sexism Cake Representatives Womens Rights Decree Inhuman

Author:Dale Spender

“If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.”

Ifs Prayer Cry Wind All Things Absolutes Breaths Breathe Cease Submit Weary Decree Incessant Stifling Bidding

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Seven Embellishments

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Seven Embellishments

“To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, it may be defined an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovichs compositions and Prokofievs were no longer to be played.”

Firsts Said Boards Crash Composition Severe Decree Moscow Conservatory Bulletin Board

Author:Mstislav Rostropovich

“The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.”

“I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.”

“Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.”

Thinking Men Philosophy Christian Church Religious Prayer Atheism Positive Atheism Maxims Decree

Author:Mary Todd Lincoln

“You better believe that I want to build a Christian nation, because the only option is a pagan nation. Not that the government can make someone a Christian by decree. A Christian nation would be defined as We acknowledge God in our body politic, in our communities, that the God of the Bible is our God, and, we acknowledge that His law is supreme.”

Want Believe Body Government Would Be Christian Law Nations Community Scary Supreme Defined Acknowledge Pagan Our Community Decree Christian Nation

Author:Randall Terry

“This Day, whate'er the Fates decree; Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old”

Stills Joy Fate Sick Aging This Day Decree

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems

“Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.”

Men Should Humans Kind Would Be Courses Influence Human Nature Opposites Persuasion Adopted Disagreement Decree Reversal Unassuming

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.”

Mind Courses Strong Kings Sacred Accidents Vow Creeps Blunt Decree Strong Mind

Author:William Shakespeare

“If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and will stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.”

Ifs Men Should Mind Matter Law Evil Belief Causes Forever Produce Divine Disease Opposites Sick Illness Be Good Mortals Sickness Remedy Unreal Decree Transgression

Author:Mary Baker Eddy

“[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.”

Ifs Wells May Action Causes One Thing Effects Eternal All Things Productions Determined Former Almighty Hereafter Decree Causality Concur

Book:Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition

Source: Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition

“Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical order and so provides for the unity of imperative control.”

Spiritual Faith Order Power Depends Authority Unity Dimensions Imperatives Decree Spiritual Dimensions

Book:In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

“(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.”

People Knows May Said Book Care America Worry Know How Records Happened Fans Changed Serious Baseball Yesterday Weather Who Cares Pitcher Erase Decree Well Said Discrepancies Bookkeeping

Author:George Will

“The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give authority to its decrees.Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain.”

Giving Has Beens War Enough Government Peace Results Authority Relation International Vain League Anarchy Establishment Conferences Hostility International Relations Decree

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.”

Law Justice Cases Court Equity Rule Of Law Decree

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.”

Hands Heaven Danger Ruins Traitor Treason Decree

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be”

Moving Law Party Policy Circumstances Finals Decree

Book:Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review

Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review

“There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.”

Source: The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld

“As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!”

Men Mind Inspiration Left Wise Written Mankind Fool Bird Instinct Terror Beast Madmen Decree

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)”

Serious Months Offers West Israel Freeze Settlement Decree

Author:Uri Orbach

“Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.”

Ifs Mind Doe Whole Law Circumstances Opening Reform Productive Decree Opening Your Mind

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.”

Christian Sin Break Hell Depends Blessing Bases Perseverance Saint Christian Life Ties Adoption Pillars Knots Decree Chastisement

Book:A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture

Source: A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture

“When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites, and afterwards throw theminto prison. This is the blessedness of a saint; his condition admits of no alteration. God's call is founded upon His decree, and His decree is immutable. Acts of grace cannot be reversed.God blots out His people's sins, but not their names.”

People Men Doe Christian Hate Names Sin Grace Conditions Subjects One Day Blessing Prison Saint Christian Life Repent Decree Many Friends Alterations Chastisement Blessedness

Book:All Things for Good

Source: All Things for Good

“Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.”

Thinking Prayer Changed Philosophical Cease Decree

Author:Virgil

“Whether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them.”

Ifs Knows Should Self Willing All Things Evident Decree

Book:The Works of President Edwards;: Five sermons on different occasions. Miscellaneous observations on important theological controversies. Distinguishing marks of a work of the spirit of God

Source: The Works of President Edwards;: Five sermons on different occasions. Miscellaneous observations on important theological controversies. Distinguishing marks of a work of the spirit of God

“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.”

People Law Justice Poor Issues Rights Oppressed Unjust Woe Prey Widows Decree Robbing Unjust Laws Fatherless

Author:Isaiah

“The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.”

Sometimes Earth America Names Liberty Gone Please Equal Vain Curse Sigh Stamps Decree Foam Liberty And Equality

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even our ministers, would be appointed by harlots, for money; and their judgments, decrees, and decisions, be sold to repay themselves, or, perhaps, to procure the smiles of profligate females.”

Said Would Be America Decision Virtue Judging Judgment Female Manners Ministers Governors Representatives Senators Piety Decree Havoc Harlots

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of

“In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.”