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«In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: ''Is there someone new?''»

«Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. ... Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,' looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.»

«For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.»

«But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.»

«But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.»

«And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; / And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.»

«(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? / He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) / And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; / For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: / Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: / That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; / But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: / From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.»

«It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth.»

«America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.»

«A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.»