Martin Luther Quotes
God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.
Quotes to Explore
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On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.
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[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
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A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
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I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
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Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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Keep going and the Lord will help you.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
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He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
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I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.
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[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.
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I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.
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God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.
