N. T. Wright Quotes
The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
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You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change once spirit has infused our consciousness. As we come to look at an experience differently, in time in begins to transform.
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Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to fight it. But when I fought it, the creative process was interrupted, so I ended up going with it. If I'm ever accused of being derivative of my heroes then I would take that as a compliment. I like staying close to the roots of my influences.
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The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.
