Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

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• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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• I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry.

  

  Diana Ross
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• I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
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• We need to find ways to communicate with each other.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
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• There doesn't need to be a God for me.

  

  Angelina Jolie
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• Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Knowledge and know-how are the real sources of value and riches. You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set for yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.

  

  Anna Friel
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• So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry.

  

  Liane Moriarty
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• If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

  

  Jimmy Buffett
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• Certainly everyone, in order to protect love, Certainly wishes to believe in something.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
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• Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
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• Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.

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• But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

  

  Betty Smith
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• God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.

  

  S. T. Joshi
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• Fernando Torres needs to be loved on a regular basis.

  

  Mark Lawrenson
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• What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

  

  C.P. Snow
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• When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

  

  Carson Daly
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• Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

  

  George Eliot
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• The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn't there anymore.

  

  Timothy B. Schmit The Eagles
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• Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Needs
  • Protect
  • Idols