Quotes about Foundation
Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in a privation or want of holiness. And therefore undoubtedly, if it be so that sin does very much consist in hardness of heart, and so in the want of pious affections of heart, holiness does consist very much in those pious affections.
— Jonathan Edwards
Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation;
— Jonathan Edwards
There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell-fire, if it were not for God's restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men a foundation for the torments of hell: there are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell-fire.
— Jonathan Edwards
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation.
— Paul Johnson
I'd like to write a series that, in an adventurous and fun way, teaches kids a way to discern between good and evil, to establish a foundation on moral absolutes.
— Frank Peretti
We receive life by coming to Him. The life that is on a solid foundation is not just one that understands doctrine accurately, but is one that is joined to the Word Himself. It is not just knowing the Book of the Lord, but knowing the Lord of the Book. However, because He is Truth, we must love the truth and be passionately devoted to accuracy of doctrine as well.
— Rick Joyner
The life that is on a solid foundation is not just one that understands doctrine accurately, but is one that is joined to the Word Himself. It is not just knowing the Book of the Lord, but knowing the Lord of the Book.
— Rick Joyner
We will plant our feet firmly on the solid rock of God's Word and refuse to be moved by spirits of seduction that are luring the rest of the world into deception offered in a myriad of forms.
— Rick Renner
Stability, " insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.
— Aldous Huxley
Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.
— George Washington
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
— Desmond Tutu
I fear that Christians who stand with only one leg upon earth also stand with only one leg in heaven (12 August 1943).
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer