#mere

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#certain #certain things #co-operate #co-operation #commitment

So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#entrances #exits #good #i #i think

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. ↗

— Florence King

#bite #conventions #etiquette #matters #merely

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#actions #appalling #bad #bad people #generation

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#alive #already #bring #creators #direct

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#concentrate #expulsion #merely #must #negative

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#dangerous #escape #face #facts #frequently

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#exists #government #legitimate #merely

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#conclude #fundamental #human #i #institutions

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#because #conservatism #filling #inside #means