William Law Quotes
Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.
Quotes to Explore
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.
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Through the reading of scripture, the people hear other stories about Jesus that enable them to move beyond the privateness of their own stories.
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We are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a ‘great cloud of witnesses,’ the Scripture says. It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see. What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.
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Teaching memoir is teaching vulnerability is teaching voice is teaching self.
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That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.
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Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.
