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The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price. -- P. T. Barnum
Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort. -- T. B. Joshua
I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy. -- Terence McKenna
There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry. -- Vance Havner
My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction. -- Oliver Cromwell
I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing it for my own edification. -- Billy Joel
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. -- Martin Filler
The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification. -- William Ames
If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer. -- Sarah Moore Grimke
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations. -- Susan Sontag
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on. -- Elbert Hubbard
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality . -- Joseph Conrad
Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification, but rather are practiced to beget most foolish questions, are to be deprived of the communion of the Church. -- Pope Innocent I
Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact. -- David A. Bednar
The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial. -- Richard Cecil
Think of Iraq as "East Korea," because it was a shoot the cuffs war for the edification of Kim Jong Il to let him know we've now circled the SUVs. Iraq was about breaking adhesions, getting lean, staying frosty - in short, getting ready for the big Doug MacArthur Memorial Cage Match to come. -- Dennis Miller
The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite. -- Steven Pinker
What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man? -- Amos Bronson Alcott
I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition. -- Richard Dawkins
To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways... (The Rape Of The Swan)Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism. -- The Poet Archibald MacLeish
The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it does not aim at either alone but is gospel centered and in the vernacular. -- Timothy Keller

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