William Booth Quotes
If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.
Quotes to Explore
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.
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In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson High School. But by the time the [book-length] high-school yearbook came around, he didn't want to be involved.
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Why would anyone be interested in my little personal story if we can do without Homer's or Shakespeare's? Someone who truly loves literature is like a person of faith. The believer knows very well that there is nothing at all at the bureau of vital statistics about the Jesus that truly counts for him.
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If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.
