Evelyn Underhill Quotes
Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I love to fly so much.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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We don't look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It's not only about Chelsea, this league.
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My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.
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I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
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We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God’s truth, the universe at once began to exist.
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'Jack,you have debauched my sloth.'
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'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'
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To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
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It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.
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The main goal of divine Providence in allowing the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and well-being of souls, and to this goal everything temporal must necessarily be subordinated and directed.
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41: Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
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Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.
