Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.
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I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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A veteran deserves the very best health care anywhere. That means sometimes, they should go out into the private sector if something's being done better than the VA.
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Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.
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The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.
