John Calvin Quotes
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
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So long as man is protected by madness he functions and flourishes, but when he frees himself from the fruitful tyranny of fixed ideas, he is lost, ruined.
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Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
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You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.
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Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
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Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.
