Brother Lawrence Quotes
The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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I love comedy. God has given me this platform.
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The first time I crawled into the octagon, I just felt like an animal, you know? Like a creature, like I wasn't quite human.
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She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
