E. Stanley Jones Quotes
The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.E. Stanley Jones
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
Cam Newton -
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith -
Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
Oscar Niemeyer -
Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
Caitlyn Jenner -
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
Larry Wilcox
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
Dan Jenkins -
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
Barry Levinson -
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Haim Ginott -
I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
Ted McGinley
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Queen Christina -
Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
Young Jeezy -
With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
Oscar Isaac -
There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
Yoko Ono -
Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
Patricia Hill Collins -
The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.
Beverly Daniel Tatum -
...our concern is more about going to heaven than loving the King.
Francis Chan -
The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.
E. Stanley Jones