Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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Most of our songs are about relationships.
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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
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The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
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The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.
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I think you are putting the cart before the horse.
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I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.
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Timing has a lot to with art.
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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
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Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.
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We were a musical family, and we had record players. It would be a family thing to listen to music together.
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Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world.
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Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.
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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.
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A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity
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The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.
