N. T. Wright Quotes
The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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Petunias are as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.
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A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
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India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
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The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
