Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
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I wrestled futilely, then relaxed as a vine wrapped three times around my throat and squeezed. Right," I choked out, and shut my eyes. "I'll wait here, then.
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People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.
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Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?
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More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.
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We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.
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Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.
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Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.
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Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!
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I much prefer to write everything by myself. It's kind of difficult. It's like getting undressed in a really bright light.
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Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.
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Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.
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Western theology invariably asks the question: Are miracles possible? This of course addresses the Enlightenment problem of a closed universe. In much of Asia that is a non-question because the miraculous is assumed and fairly regularly experienced.
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Miracles need people as much as people need miracles.
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I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
