Ole Hallesby Quotes
Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
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On 'Game of Thrones', the people that I've met, of the people behind the scenes, was not even a scratch of the vast crew that actually does work on that show.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.
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Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
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Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.
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Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.
