Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.
Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.
The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum so unreservedly. . . . And 2nd, it is not clear to me why, if continual physical conditions are of so little moment as you suppose, variation should occur at all. However, I must read the book two or three times more before I presume to begin picking holes.
Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.
Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.
Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.
We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.
"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own. . . . "[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in his time, not our own.
You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.
I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.
Going back to why people don't vote, I presume the main reason is because they understand without reading political science texts that it doesn't make any difference how they vote. It's not going to affect policy, so why bother?
To presume a want of motives for such contests. . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
