R. C. Sproul Quotes
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
R. C. Sproul
Quotes to Explore
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Saint Augustine
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Saint Augustine
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
Nathan Fillion
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
Earl Weaver
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
Dan Millman
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
Rachel Bloom
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
Quintus Ennius
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
Mahalia Jackson
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The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
Baha'u'llah
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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Daisaku Ikeda
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
Oral Roberts
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There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.
Damien Rice
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The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.
Kevin Spacey
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I don't try to justify myself or defend myself. I've always done what I had to. She should know for herself that I love her, that I've loved her always, always. Those years you can't replace by words, though. After years and years, words get weaker and weaker.
Klaus Kinski
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Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.
C. Wright Mills
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Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.
Andre Rieu
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The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
R. C. Sproul
