Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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In Germany, Gunther Burpus remained wedged in his front-door cat flap for two days because passers-by thought he was a piece of installation art. Mr Burpus, 41, of Bremen, was using the flap because he had mislaid his keys. Unfortunately he was spotted by a group of student pranksters who removed his trousers and pants, painted his bottom bright blue, stuck a daffodil between his buttocks and erected a sign saying 'Germany Resurgent, an Essay in Street Art. Please give Generously'. Passers-by assumed Mr Burpus' screams were part of the act and it was only when an old woman complained to the police that he was finally freed. 'I kept calling for help,' he said, 'but people just said 'Very good! Very clever!' and threw coins at me.'
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
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Genesis 15:6:
Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
(NIV)
And he [Abram] believed in (trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the Lord, and He counted it to him as righteousness (right standing with God). [Rom. 4:3, 18-22; Gal. 3:6; James 2:23.](AMP)
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
(KJV)
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I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.
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After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.
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Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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John 20:11:
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb
(NIV)
But Mary remained standing outside the tomb sobbing. As she wept, she stooped down [and looked] into the tomb.
(AMP)
But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,
(KJV)
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John 3:22:
After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized.
(NIV)
After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the land (the countryside) of Judea, where He remained with them, and baptized.
(AMP)
After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
(KJV)
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
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In this lucid and flexible pattern only one thing remained always stationary, but this fallacy went unnoticed by Martha. The blind spot was th...
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.
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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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Exodus 20:21:
The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
(NIV)
And the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
(AMP)
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
(KJV)
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
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1 John 2:19:
They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
(NIV)
They went out from our number, but they did not [really] belong to us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But [they withdrew] that it might be plain that they all are not of us.
(AMP)
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
(KJV)
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Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
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Mark 3:4:
Then Jesus asked them, 'Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?' But they remained silent.
(NIV)
And He said to them, Is it lawful and right on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to take it? But they kept silence.
(AMP)
And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
(KJV)
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