Meir Soloveichik Quotes
God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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I love going to second-hand stores.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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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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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
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Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. The No is not the last and highest truth, but the call from home which comes in answer to our asking for God in the world.
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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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I do honour the very flea of his dog.
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When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit.
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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
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God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.
