Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
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Christ's finished sacrifice was sufficient. By participating in the mass, Roman Catholics are calling Him a liar! It's an abomination in the eyes of God.
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If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.
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3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do.
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'Weep,' said Athos, 'weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!'
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Between 'there is a God' and 'there is no God' lies a whole vast tract, which the really wise man crosses with great effort. A Russian knows one or other of these two extremes, and the middle tract between them does not interest him; and therefore he usually knows nothing, or very little. (Diary, 1897)
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A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
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One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.
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I wish I could wear clothes straight off the runway.
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This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more.
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It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
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Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.
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For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.
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I wish I didn’t have a heart that God wrote Sad on.
