C. S. Lewis Quotes
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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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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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.
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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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In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
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Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.
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Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
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My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'
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What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'
