In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)
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Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents
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I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
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Romans 12:9:
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
(NIV)
[Let your] love be sincere (a real thing); hate what is evil [loathe all ungodliness, turn in horror from wickedness], but hold fast to that which is good.
(AMP)
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
(KJV)
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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
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Acts 20:21:
I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.
(NIV)
But constantly and earnestly I bore testimony both to Jews and Greeks, urging them to turn in repentance [that is due] to God and to have faith in our Lord Jesus Christ [that is due Him].
(AMP)
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
(KJV)
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Wisdom
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.
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A turn in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.
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