R. C. Sproul Quotes
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Marriage has made me safer.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
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They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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I'm very humble.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.
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We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.
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Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. There is no creativity, there's none of that.
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The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.
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The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.