William Ellery Channing Quotes
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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I'm not a big 'cry on a shoulder' person. I'm very introverted when it comes to my own stuff.
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I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
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I feel it strong in my heart and sing it and write it just because that's a part of Ben Harper, that's just a part of me, that makes me who I am.
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Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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My mom always canned, and she taught us to take care of ourselves. She taught us everything from canning and sewing, and dad taught us everything we needed to know about farming.
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That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
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It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.
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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
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I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.
