Alexander MacLaren Quotes
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
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The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
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It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
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When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
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Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
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Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
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We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.
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The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
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The first responsibility of the state is to guarantee the safety of the people.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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As worship leaders, we have pure motives to serve, but in that wanting to serve, we can forget the One thing that is needed: to sit at the feet of Jesus.
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Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.
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Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.
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Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.
