Belle S. Spafford Quotes
It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.
Quotes to Explore
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Judiciary is where my passion is.
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I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
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All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.
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I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.
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You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.
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The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
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I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.
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I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war.
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
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Lebanon is a small country, weak, an army with very humble capabilities.
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It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.
