Isaac of Nineveh Quotes
As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.
Isaac of Nineveh
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
Karen Armstrong
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
Qandeel Baloch
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
Faith Evans
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
G. Willow Wilson
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It took me a long time to adjust and narrow down my life. I made my shift to the mind-set … there's time for my daughter outside work and that's all. This is my new life. This is not drudgery. This is fun.
Lucy Lawless
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The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the underside of things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm. - Εν Θεος - A God within.
Louis Pasteur
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Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job.
Chuck Palahniuk
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For those who want ‘to change life', ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business – advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.
Claud Cockburn
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When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
Charles Stanley
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She had long since found peace. And Frederick, from her passionately loved bridegroom, from her worshipped young husband, had become second only to God on her list of duties and forbearances. There he hung, the second in importance, a bloodless thing bled white by her prayers. For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. She wanted to stay like that. She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again longing, desiring...
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
David Johansen
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In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.
Scott Caan
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
William Osler
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If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.
Mahatma Gandhi
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As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.
Isaac of Nineveh
