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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A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
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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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When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of the imagination, a loss of the mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop me. I've just learned to move it to one side if I want to work.
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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.
