John Donne Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.
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I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.
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I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...
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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
