Nicholas Wolterstorff Quotes
Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.
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The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
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I've never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been like I need to look like that if I want to be a success. Never. I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it. And I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.
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When all else fails...be a rockstar
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.
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Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
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But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
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People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.
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Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that
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I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
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If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.
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Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.
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In the eighties, when she chiefly flourished, husbands were taken seriously, as the only real obstacles to sin. Beds too, if they had to be mentioned, were approached with caution; and a decent reserve prevented them and husbands ever being spoken of in the same breath.
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Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.
