The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women’s emancipation.
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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- Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one’s natural life. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church. – Kenneth S Kantzer
- The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf
- Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone? – Richie Norton
- Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block – Sunday Adelaja
- Nothing should become a stumbling block in your relationship with the people who surround you – Sunday Adelaja
- This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting. – Michael David Lukas
- The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot. – Benny Lewis
- The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude. – Julia Child
- In the constant pursuit of perfection, junk food will always be a rather painful stumbling block – CS Woolley
- The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church. – Eric Samuel Timm
- The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up! – Billy Graham
- God’s church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution. – Billy Graham
- If I stick to the Bible and preach the principles and the teachings of the Bible, and quote the Bible, it has an impact of its own. – Billy Graham
- I don’t get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn’t know which one to start next, block. – Tyler Hojberg
- A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. – John Maynard Keynes
- Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. – Lyndon B Johnson
- Emancipation from suffering is your birthright. – Erin Fall Haskell
- As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation. – Robin Hobb
- If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. – Germaine Greer
- Women’s history is the primary tool for women’s emancipation. – Gerda Lerner
- The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself -” without the assistance of governments. – pierrejospeh proudhon
- Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy. – Saul Bellow
- When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission. – Matt Chandler
- I surmise that later generations will likely scoff at the means by which we are currently addressing pain as well. – Melissa Cady
- Strike a match, ignite my past. – Cady Groves
- Too much profit is being made at the expense of unsuspecting patients. – Melissa Cady
- What is rational in the practice of thoughtful medicine is impractical for the system. – Melissa Cady
- Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society. – Melissa Cady
- God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling. – Thomas Watson
- He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto – Andy Stanton
- A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything’s finally in the right place. – Scott Lynch
- I’m alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood. – Isaac Marion
- She had the most beautiful awkwardness – Brandon Stanton
- In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it’s great to see that somebody’s still rocking the bus-on-a-string. – Brandon Stanton