Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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My parents were ballet dancers, and I did a lot of ballet, too, so I think I learned quite early on how to hold my body. Although I do recall desperately wishing I was shorter at school.
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I think there are bound to be obstacles in any path to success. I mean, I'm Jewish, and there's nothing I can do about that. Instead of sitting around and feeling sorry for myself, I got over it and did something with my life.
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I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.
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Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
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The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.
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I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.
