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Quotes About Name

For if we seek salvation, the very name ofJesus teaches us that he possesses it.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Thou are boot for many a bruise, And healest many a wound; In our Lady's blessed name, I take thee from the ground.
~ Sir Walter Scott
I would like a cappuccino, says Linus politely. Thank you. Your name? I'll spell it for you, he says. Z-W-P-A-E-N-- What? She stares at him, Sharpie in hand. Wait, I haven't finished. Double F-hyphen-T-J-U-S. It's an unusual name, Linus adds gravely. It's Dutch.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I, for one, prize less The name of king than deeds of kingly power; And so would all who learn in wisdom's school.
~ Sophocles
O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.
~ Herman Melville
You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.
~ Jane Yolen
The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.
~ Michelle M. Pillow
What needs my Shakespeare for his honor'd bones,The labor of an age in piled stones,Or that his hallow'd relics should be hidUnder a star-y-pointing pyramid?Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
~ John Milton
What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
~ John Milton
May our light shine in this world so that people see you in our sacrificial deeds of love and our compromising words of truth and give glory to your hallowed name, Father
~ John Piper
And Christ "will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him." (Heb 9:28). And "on his robe and on his thigh he has a name written"---not king of the Jews, but "King of all kings and Lord of lords." (Rev. 19:16). Amen. Come, King Jesus.
~ John Piper
their nation with the same national identity and adopting the same name? Only Israel can make that claim.
~ John Price
When the Lord gave to Jeremiah the revelation that he recorded, and we read, in the Book of Jeremiah, He only caused Jeremiah to use the phrase "Daughter of Babylon" twice, once in Jeremiah 50:42, and the second time in Jeremiah 51:33. This is not a casual or accidental use of the name. A close study of Chapters 50 and 51 reveals 99 verses, almost all of which could not apply to ancient Babylon, but do apply to the nation Jeremiah refers to as the Daughter of Babylon.
~ John Price
Sé que decir que estas otras soluciones no son válidas suena discriminatorio en nuestro mundo relativista pero, repetidamente, la Biblia se hace eco de este tema—Jesús es el único camino. Y en ningún otro hay salvación; porque no hay otro nombre bajo el cielo, dado a los hombres, en que podamos ser salvos. Hechos
~ John R. Cross
An intermediate case is that of a name used analogically or metaphorically; that is, a name which is predicated of two things, not univocally, or exactly in the same signification, but in significations somewhat similar, and which being derived one from the other, one of them may be considered the primary, and the other a secondary signification.
~ John Stuart Mill
What we call men, are the subjects, the individual Stiles and Nokes; not the qualities by which their humanity is constituted. The name, therefore, is said to signify the subjects directly , the attributes indirectly ; it denotes the subjects, and implies, or involves, or indicates, or as we shall say henceforth connotes, the attributes. It is a connotative name.
~ John Stuart Mill
When we predicate of any thing an abstract name, we affirm of the thing that it is one or other of these five things; that it is a case of Existence, or of Co-existence, or of Causation, or of Sequence, or of Resemblance.
~ John Stuart Mill
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better.
~ John Updike
I've been trying to kill that name most of my adult life, but I always weaken when somebody whispers it in my ear.
~ John Varley
Between the brutality that would sacrifice a single innocent life to a fear without a name, and the enlightenment that would sacrifice thousands of lives to a fear that we have named, I have found little to choose.
~ John Williams
O wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee Death."*
~ Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen was here probably paraphrasing the Shakespearian quotation: "O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
~ Ellery Queen
Just as my mother reminded me to live up to the reputation of my family name, we all need to be reminded to live up to the reputation of the name of Jesus.
~ Elmer L. Towns
Erik called the land Greenland because the name would encourage people to go there.
~ Else Roesdahl