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Letter "C" » commands
«Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.»
Author: Ellen Glasgow
(Novelist)
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Literature,
Violence
| Keywords:
commands, crude, cruder, distorted
«The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.»
«We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those comma»
Author: John Frame
| About:
Christianity,
God,
Liberty
| Keywords:
apply, comma, commands, commas, defending, exclusively, rule of, scripture
«The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands»
«The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
aspects, closing, commands, copied, copier, cut through, Forever Free, Interior, jungle, occupied, submits, text
«Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, one ought not to wage war.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
beneath, commands, despises, waged, waging
«The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
body, body mind, commands, Itself, meeting of minds, meets, obeys, orders, resistance, The Body
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