Etty Hillesum Quotes
Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.
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I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.
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The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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Even before I was me, I was God in God; And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself
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It was abominable - wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.
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God don't lie.... And these are his words.... He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.
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Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me 'Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?' And I say 'Good God, I hope not!'
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.
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Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
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We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
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I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.
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Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.
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Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads.
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I usually get so warned when I go to Detroit, like, 'Oh my God, don't go to this section, don't go to that section.' I've never had any issues in Detroit. I love that there's enough of a racial mix of people to make fun of. I've always had a good time there.
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I believe the favor of God on my life is not for me to keep to myself and become proud of, but to be used for others... I believe God has a plan for me in the entertainment world.
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Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.
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Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet.
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Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.
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Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.
