R. C. Sproul Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.
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I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
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I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.
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It makes me remember what I have too often forgotten, and what my mother often told me when young - that our God is a prayer-hearing God.
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We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.
