He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end. . . .
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
I wear makeup pretty much every day. For training, I usually do a lighter base, a lighter blush and I used the mascara and a little bit of the lip gloss.
Umpire's heaven is a place where he works third base every game. Home is where the heartache is.
Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.
The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.
I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.
Never base your faith on your feelings. Base it on God's Word.
For a while I was a completely unknown artist with no fan base and no draw in the clubs. The only people that would give me a shot were the gay clubs. Gay clubs were so open to me coming in and trying things out.
For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.
Scattergories is second base for Christians.
Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn.
If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition when we see them at their most base, in their sorrow and gluttony and foolishness. You need the virtues, too—some sort of virtues—but we don’t care about Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina or Raskolnikov because they’re good. We care about them because they’re not admirable, because they’re us, and because great writers have forgiven them for it.
Sometimes people base their identity on their gifting. But our identity is in Christ and ultimately has no relation to whatever gift the Spirit may have granted to us.
It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.