Ark quotes

Ark

46 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian

"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved."

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father

"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking to you. Then it will be too late. Come to Christ while there is still time. Christ, God's greater Ark, stands ready to welcome you to safety today."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light."

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Bernard Baruch Financier, Politician
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"A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?"

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