Tony Evans Quotes
If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.
Quotes to Explore
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
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We crossed the Himalayas in less than two minutes, and then you realise, 'Oh My God, within an hour and a half, we have gone around the whole planet.'
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I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
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God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?
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God's gift of forgiveness and eternal life in heaven is absolutely free!
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My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?
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Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
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Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
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The only way I know to get involved in things is to dive into it.
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Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.
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Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...
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If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.
