A Quote by Desiderius Erasmus
Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.
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The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.
Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.
God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.
The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.
The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.
I only invoked what you already knew.
[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked
Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat.
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.
The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction... Today there is a “NO” which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the “NO” to war.
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