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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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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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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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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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
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Reich and John Cage were pretty big influences on this record (Folie A Deux) in weird ways in that you wouldn't necessarily hear any of it - nothing ends up sounding like either of them, but I think just methodology and things like that ended up on the record in various ways.
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Don't talk it, walk it.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.
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I like science a whole bunch, but I love 'The X-Files' more - I want to believe.
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Who do you think's better looking people in the north or people in the south?
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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.
