Ole Hallesby Quotes

It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.

Ole Hallesby

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• In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

  

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• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  

  Sam Harris
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• I love working the legislative process.

  

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• I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.

  

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• A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

  

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• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  

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• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
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• No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

  

  J. Carter Brown
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• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
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• Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
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• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

  

  Ram Shriram
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• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
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• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
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• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

  Barney Ross
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• I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.

  

  Dana Carvey
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• I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

  

  Maimonides
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• From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud sometimes, but I never do.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
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• Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company.

  

  Bob Iger
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• There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
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• It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • God
  • Promise