John Calvin Quotes
Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.
Quotes to Explore
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.
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My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.
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The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.
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If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.
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With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.
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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
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Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.
