#claim

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. ↗

— Roland Allen

#christ #church #communion #contradiction #excludes

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. ↗

— Tom Allen

#argument #because #bogus #claim #completely

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#country #generally #his #johnson #men

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#critics #doing #elements #ever #formula

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#been #cheated #claims #dealing #had

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#bush #central #claim #cure #democracy

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these. ↗

— Athanasius

#alone #contain #doctrine #fountains #godliness

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#claim #language #last #ordinary #ordinary language

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#death #else #genius #monuments #outlive

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#condition #contradiction #full #i #live