"I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language."

Attention, Language, Meditation

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"I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language."

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"You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians."

David Lee Roth, American Musician

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"The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium."

John Moody, American Businessman

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"Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company."

Mark Millar, Scottish Writer

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"It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles."

Ferdinand Christian Baur, German Theologian

Attention, First, Letters, Study

"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine."

Dwight L. Moody, American Clergyman

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"The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real."

Simone Veil, French Lawyer

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"During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky."

Paul Nurse, British Scientist

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"The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on."

John McCain, American Politician

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"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."

Jean Sibelius, Finnish Composer

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"The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality."

Alexis Korner, English Musician

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"I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language."

Attention, Language, Meditation

"Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture."

Love, Diligence, Fathers, Praise

"In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother."

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"For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us."

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"Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun."

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"This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures."

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"Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature."

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"For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity."

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"And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use."

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"As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present."

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