Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty pleasures, God removed every possible obstruction to the covenant by being faithful for us, by becoming like us and subjecting Himself to the very worst within us, loving us all the way to the cross and all the way out of the grave.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
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If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
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I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.
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My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.
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When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty pleasures, God removed every possible obstruction to the covenant by being faithful for us, by becoming like us and subjecting Himself to the very worst within us, loving us all the way to the cross and all the way out of the grave.
