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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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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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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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.
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The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.
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If someone feels negative about the way society or culture seems to be going, what it probably suggests is that it's just moving away from the state that they are comfortable with or used to. It's understandable why someone would feel that way.
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Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.
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If I am confirmed as secretary of labor, I intend to keep faith with the men and the women who still work at jobs like those my parents held.
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I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
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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.
