Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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I never lie to my fans.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.
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You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
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In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.
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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
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We have to stop judging people who are struggling with their weight.
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The media has been very bad about informing us about what is going on. They focus on surface things. They do not focus enough on the fact that the Fourth Amendment is on life support and that we need a return to transparency in government.
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It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.