Robert H. Schuller Quotes
Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
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If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
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I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
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The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
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Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
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I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
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Not even close, ... Once I can transfer my weight to my front leg and just do it with a lot of force, and I don't even think about it, the home runs will come.
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The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
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The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
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God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
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The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.
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The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.
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Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.
