Samuel Rutherford (Rev Prof Samuel Rutherford) Quotes
Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'
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Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.
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We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
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Above the mists on Hatheg-Kla, earth's gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for they know they are safe, and love to come from unknown Kadath in ships of clouds and play in the olden way, as they did when earth was new and men not given to the climbing of inaccessible places.
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I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.
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I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I moved to L.A. in 1997.
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If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.
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Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
