Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
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It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.
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Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.
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As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.
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The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.
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We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.
