Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
God, tired, all he wanted to do was sleep, be in bed, dreaming of palo verdes in bloom, the yellow blossoms bursting in the blue sky like firecrackers. He wanted to dream soft hands rubbing his skin. He pictured himself melting beneath those hands, like butter or ice cream or anything else that wasn’t human.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.
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Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.
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God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.
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Man’s true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever. The source of this quotation (with 'chief' in place of 'true') is the Westminster Shorter Catechism, http://www.reformed.org/documents/wsc/index.html?_top=http://www.reformed.org/documents/WSC.html.
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Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying - but when God talks to us, we're said to be schizophrenic?
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I would never dispute that I've been given a gift by God. That's something I've been raised to believe. I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing, and I know that I can act.
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In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.
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For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.
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I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.
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I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that's a completely different thing. I've written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.
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God bless Chris Guest... and I mean it sincerely.
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So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'
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I really miss Australia. I miss eating fish n' chips, oh my God, and Australian pies and the wonderful corner shops.
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.
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Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.
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God, tired, all he wanted to do was sleep, be in bed, dreaming of palo verdes in bloom, the yellow blossoms bursting in the blue sky like firecrackers. He wanted to dream soft hands rubbing his skin. He pictured himself melting beneath those hands, like butter or ice cream or anything else that wasn’t human.
