Calvin Miller Quotes
Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.
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Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
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The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
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God bless pop music and God bless MTV.
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There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
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You can't run game on a rapper. I'm always 10 steps ahead of you.
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All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
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Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.
