Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

I knew what he was saying, and I wished to God he was someone else, someone who didn't have to say things out loud.

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• After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • God
  • Actor

• The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Job
  • Computer

• Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Blessing

• 'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Understanding
  • Creation

• And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • God
  • Men
  • May

• I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Christ
  • Pure Bread

• All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • God
  • Men
  • College

• Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • History
  • True

• If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • God
  • Man

• An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Devil
  • Remembered

• If you see yourself as God and then you come back from this state and somebody says, 'Hey, Sam, empty the garbage!' it catches you back into the model of 'I'm Sam who empties the garbage.' You can't maintain these new kinds of structures. It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage.

  

  Ram Dass
  • God
  • Model

• 'I think Kathaos fears no divine forces.''Then he’s a brave man.''Oh, men make their own gods,' Yannul remarked. 'I have a god with a fat belly, and a house full of expensive women to attend his every need, and I call him Yannul the Lan in Five Years from This.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • God
  • Universe
  • Personality

• Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Mind
  • Pride

• The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • God
  • Men

• True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.

  

  Mary Baker Eddy
  • God
  • True
  • Learning

• I hope when I'm 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn't recognise me.

  

  Pete Burns
  • God
  • Hope
  • Heaven

• We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • World
  • God
  • Interesting

• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Person

• Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Study

• When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.

  

  P. M. Forni
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Mean

• You have to think about the WWE as soap operas.

  

  Linda McMahon
  • Wwe
  • Soap Operas

• I knew what he was saying, and I wished to God he was someone else, someone who didn't have to say things out loud.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • God
  • Loud
  • Wished