A Quote by Joseph Parker

Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.

Joseph Parker

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Blow Face Fist God Sin

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Joseph Parker
New Zealander - Athlete
Born: January 9, 1992

When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.

Roger Delano Hinkins

I always held my flower in a clenched fist.

Eric Hoffer

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

Herbert Newton Casson

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Alistair Begg

Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.

Sixto Rodriguez

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

Victor Hugo

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

Gayle Forman

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Alice Duer Miller

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

Jewel

There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand

Oriah Dreamer

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.

Mike Huckabee

God has decided the rules of life, whereby you don't trespass on anybody else's rights, and sin is something that upsets the balance of things. There are three types of sin: sin against yourself; sin against other people; and sin against God. People often sin against themselves and others and misbehave with God, too.