Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes
If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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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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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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You are always living a reflection of whatever you are outputting. And so, if you get into a little pocket where a lot of people are being rude, it's probably because you are being rude — or because you have been aware of people being rude. Nothing ever happens to you that is not part of your vibration!
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The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
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Few men would be so gentle as to spare even the best, if by their destruction vile usurpers could become God's anointed, and by the most execrable wickedness invest themselves with that divine character.
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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
