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Letter "R" » root
«To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root»
«There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.»
Author: Joanna Field
| About:
Fear,
Obstacles
| Keywords:
endless, Obstacles, root, Root cause, seemed
«The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world»
«The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need of no outward stimulus.»
Author: Billy Graham
| Keywords:
ache, contentment, dependent, dependent on, distressing, enduring, environment, fills, go wrong, grinning, grins, inward, in the midst, midst, outward, relaxation, root, smiles, stimuli, stimulus, superficial, surface, undisturbed
«The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine»
Author: George MacDonald
| Keywords:
of our own, partake, partaken, partakes, partake in, partaking, rebellion, root, Thine
«The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
calls, Christian church, Christian Churches, commonly, earn, every so often, heresy, ineffective, letting, preaching, root, salvation, schism, suffered, The Christian, work through
«The root of the matter? the thing I mean? is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
guide, imperative, imperatives, Intellectual honesty, motive, root, the matter
«The lack of money is the root of all evil.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Evil,
Money
| Keywords:
lack, root
«This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
appears, protector, protectors, root, springs, tyrant
«The insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
insane, prisoner, root, The Prisoner of
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