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In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefore, no matter how the world uses the term, we must understand how God uses the term so we can understand the language of holy writ and profit thereby.
— Ezra Taft Benson
What should we all do without the calendar, when we want to put off a disagreeable duty? The admirable arrangements of the solar system, by which our time is measured, always supply us with a term before which it is hardly worth while to set about anything we are disinclined to.
— George Eliot
Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?
— Henry David Thoreau
When God is so often spoken of as the last as well as the first, the end as well as the beginning, it is implied that as he is the first, efficient58 cause and fountain from whence all things originate; so, he is the last, final cause for which they are made; the final term to which they all tend in their ultimate issue. This
— John Piper
Is it sinless? It is not worth while tocontend for a term It is "salvation from sin.
— John Wesley
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
— Karl Barth
The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
— CS Lewis
There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.
— William Howard Taft