Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal Jesus did not give them something to think about together when He was gone. Instead, He gave them concrete things to do - specific ways of being together in their bodies - that would go on teaching them what they needed to know when He was no longer around to teach them Himself ... "Do this" He said - not believe this but do this - "in remembrance of me.Barbara Brown Taylor
Quotes to Explore
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
Ted Deutch -
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More -
I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
Adam Ferrara -
It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
Karin Slaughter -
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
Venus Williams
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
Harold S. Geneen -
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
A. N. Wilson -
I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.
Nate Berkus -
I will not hear a word against him. I love my Bieber!
Kate McKinnon -
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey -
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
Bertrand Russell
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I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
Dorothy Malone -
Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
Bob Beauprez -
It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It's always beyond what you've ever done.
Bruce Wilkinson -
Don't overdo it. Don't over-diet, over-exercise, overeat, overdo the makeup, and don't stress out.
Cheryl Ladd -
I'm becoming more of a Jets fan, and 'Hard Knocks' has a lot to do with it. I like Rex Ryan. You know what? I'm going to give up the Cowboys. I'm now a Jets fan.
John Ortiz -
I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.
Matthew Henry -
I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
Zooey Deschanel -
One of the teams (Tennessee) that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by a field goal. Another team (Florida) that jumped us wasn't even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me.
Charlie Weis -
The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances-of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.
H. L. Mencken -
With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal Jesus did not give them something to think about together when He was gone. Instead, He gave them concrete things to do - specific ways of being together in their bodies - that would go on teaching them what they needed to know when He was no longer around to teach them Himself ... "Do this" He said - not believe this but do this - "in remembrance of me.
Barbara Brown Taylor