Deborah Joy Winans Quotes
I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.
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Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.
