Originál: (en) Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach (what some may call) treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.
Zdroj: British Reformers: Writings of John Knox. S. 16
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„Jméno, které otevřelo každé dveře.“
Originál: (en) The name that opened every door.
o Walteru Lippmannovi
Source: [Kaufman, Paula T., 1986, The Reader's Adviser: The best in general reference literature, the social sciences, history, and the arts, R. R. Bowker, 164, anglicky]
Originál: (en) I would to God that every Holy-day whatsoever beside the Lord’s Day, were abolished. That zeal which brought them in, was without all warrant of the Word, and merely followed corrupt reason, forsooth to drive out the Holy days of the Pagans, as one nail drives out another. Those Holy days, have been so tainted with superstition that I wonder we tremble not at their very names.
Zdroj: [Ames, William, A Fresh Suit Against Human Ceremonies in God's Worship, https://books.google.cz/books?hl=cs&id=IqekWtq_u9MC&q, 1633, 761, 360, angličtina]
„Zamilovaný člověk pociťuje každý okamžik potřebu dát milované osobě nové jméno.“
„Každá žena pokládá své jméno, vyslovíš-li je ohnivě, za nejkrásnější, nejduchaplnější proslov.“
„Každá generace chce nové symboly, nové lidi, nová jména. Chtějí se odloučit od svých předchůdců.“
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„Strach je jménem Starého zákona; Víra jménem Nového.“
Originál: (en) Fear, is the denomination of the Old Testament; Believe, is the denomination of the New.
Zdroj: [Whichcote, Benjamin, 1753, Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote, J. Payne, CIXXV, angličtina]