Theodore Roethke Quotes
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When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
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I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
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Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.
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I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
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Every drop of rain that falls in Sahara Desert says it all It's a miracle. All God's creations great and small, the Golden Gate and the Taj Mahal That's a miracle. Test tube babies being born, mothers, fathers dead and gone It's a miracle.
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Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.
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The countryside meant grain and herds, and a river meant fish. And if the sky meant anything, it meant a cruel God who took no notice of their pains and chastised them if they sinned.
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I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
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I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
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I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.
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Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes.
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I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.
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How terrible the need for God.
