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.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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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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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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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 can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together.
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Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
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I walked along impressionist paintings in the Paris' museums, 1907 like a roe-deer in an enchanted forest, for which it has always yearned.
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As we've learned ? or really re-learned ? one can't build a business or our economic future on that type of flimsy foundation.
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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.
