Isaac of Nineveh Quotes
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I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally.
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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
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This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.
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Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.
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Beauty with character ages better than perfection.
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In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.
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A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.
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It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up.
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I sort of feel I'm only as good as the last record I made. I was on as soon as I finish it I immediately put it aside and move on to the next project.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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Designers have to keep the body in mind all the time. Think of the girl's undergarments: the bra is always key.
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I kind of lost my sense of organized religion and became more spiritual from the experience. I would walk in the woods and to the sand dunes and the lake every day. That spoke to me more than getting up at six and the morning and saying some prayers. That had nothing to do with religion to me.
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When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.
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I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.
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In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by without this absolutist system for 1,000 years. The problems began in the 11th century, when the popes asserted their claim to absolute control over the Church.
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I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.
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Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.
