Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Free love sounds great.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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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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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
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When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
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Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
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But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.
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I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
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Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
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We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.
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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
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Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind.
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
