John Ruskin Quotes
God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
Quotes to Explore
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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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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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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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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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
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What could be better than working with people you love?
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I used to go on chat rooms on AOL, back when those things existed, and argue with believers in evolution and argued with them that it was against God's law to believe in evolution. It was something I believed really personally.
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The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.
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'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'
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It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that 'The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.'
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The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.
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Arts may ply fantastic anatomy but nature is always herself in her wildest moods of extravagence.
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Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they’re out there. And—perhaps surprisingly—the only way to find those answers is to study NBA playoff games that happened twenty years ago. For all practical purposes, the voice of Brent Musburger was the pen of Ayn Rand.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
