Evelyn Underhill Quotes
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.
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Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be;I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
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We have got to end the Democratic Party. Its history is so interwoven with starting, keeping, trying to push slavery on beyond anything that it should have been through.
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I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.
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My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
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They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.
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So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
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As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.
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Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.
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These kids are already hard. They don't need to be made harder. The issue is softening them up. They need to learn how to care about life again. They've lost that. That's what we need to give back to them.
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3D printers give us what we've all been craving: another reason to talk to technical support. When you finally get the thing working, though, you'll be able to print out your grocery list as a cube! When you look up directions online, you can print the map out on a globe!
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They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.
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Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
