Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Quotes to Explore
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If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.
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That's painful always to lose.
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Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?
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Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.
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What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
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The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.
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As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.
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Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
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There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.
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Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.
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Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
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Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping...when you get to work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you.
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The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
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Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.
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Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)
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Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.
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There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.
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One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
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So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
