Remy de Gourmont Quotes
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.
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I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
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I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.
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Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you.
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There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.
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Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
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I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven.
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Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
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Seeing the small is called clarity.
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Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.
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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.
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You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
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They take advantage of my nobleness.
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They’ve come to kill us! And take our women! And our precious metals!
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We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we are not qualified. For Believers, we must only engage in activities for which the Lord has called us.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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Like the religious elite of Jesus’ time, we are destined for a life of being barrier makers and line drawers if we insist on holding on to a culturally diluted version of Jesus. However, when we rediscover the radical message of Jesus—a message that consistently, from beginning to end pronounced inclusion for the excluded, and love for the outcast—we rediscover a divine invitation to become the people who flip the tables, erase the lines, and remove barriers. We are invited to join Jesus in practicing undiluted inclusion of the “other.” Let’s stop being the religious elites who focus on when and how to keep people out, and instead endeavor to be the loving, inclusive followers of Jesus who unrelentingly invite the outsider to come in.
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The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.
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It's very rare to be in a state where there's nothing in, where you have no attachment to any idea or concept about yourself. In that state you've immediately raised the mind of compassion, because if nothing is in, everything is in, and you are now free to experience yourself as the world.
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Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
