Caecilius Statius Quotes
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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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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.
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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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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
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That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.
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To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.
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I know when the Berlin wall went down and I walked into what was East Berlin and saw two big Nike banners - that gave me a chill.
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There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.
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As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the 'human religious ideal' inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the 'christian religious ideal'.
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Man is a god to his fellow-man, if he know his duty.
