Thomas Keating Quotes
To become who we are as creatures made in the image and likeness of God, we have to be nothing and everything at once, since this is what God is. ... If we accept who we are, we are manifesting God and radiating Christ. The latter unfolding of the divine life within us does not need to go anywhere or do anything special.
Quotes to Explore
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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting.
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Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.
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There are a lot of people that get interested in something, and they hear about it, and they read about it, and then they watch it happen, and that's why I had quite an interest in the lottery because you'd interest a lot of people, and then just a few would win a chance to do something.
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The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
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This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
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She was poison in a pretty bottle.
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“Distressed sighs!” Robert protested. “Not once did I stoop to distressed sighs! I might have emitted a manly huff of oppression.
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I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ... if I can't take him with me, I don't want to go.
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From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.
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Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.
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To become who we are as creatures made in the image and likeness of God, we have to be nothing and everything at once, since this is what God is. ... If we accept who we are, we are manifesting God and radiating Christ. The latter unfolding of the divine life within us does not need to go anywhere or do anything special.
