Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.
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Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.
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Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
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I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.
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We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.
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It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.
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I know Eddie would want the show to go on.
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God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
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Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of apodictic faith.
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I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.
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He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.
