Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes

Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.

Rachel Grace Held

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• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Today
  • White

• In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Want
  • Society
  • Environment

• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • School
  • Kids
  • Girl

• I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • College

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • True
  • Positive

• People work hard.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Enjoy
  • Company
  • Captain

• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • War
  • Army
  • Egypt

• Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Home
  • Day
  • End

• I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Know
  • Amazing
  • Him

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Time
  • Want
  • Free

• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.

  

  Jeremy Sisto
  • Superman

• And in the ghostly palm-trees the sleepy tuneOf the quiet voice calling me, the long low croonOf the steady Trade Winds blowing.

  

  John Masefield
  • Long

• It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • God
  • Light
  • Sun

• Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Time
  • God
  • Song