For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.
Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
I love my son. I love my kids, my family, Like I said after I took the misdemeanor plea, I take full responsibility for my actions. .
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.
We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.
My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.
We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.
The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.
We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.
The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?