Ole Hallesby Quotes
Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
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No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.
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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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‘You are admitting, then, to frivolity of attitude to important global problems?’
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Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.
