E. Stanley Jones Quotes
Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and all the musicians are completely in sync with each other.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
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Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.
