#exhort

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place. ↗

— Laurel Lee

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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us. ↗

— Marc Morial

#challenge #dr #dreamer #exhort #here

Play to your strengths.” “I haven’t got any,” said Harry, before he could stop himself. “Excuse me,” growled Moody, “you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#education #encouragement #exhortation #prophecy #education

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. ↗

— John Holt

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Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. ↗

— Pierre Charron

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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

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For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

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Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all. ↗

— James Mill

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