Carl Lentz Quotes
You know you're hearing from God when you don't walk away with facts but you walk away with faith.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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'What kind of idiot do you think I am?''I have no idea what kind of idiot you are,' Miss Jesczenka said. 'That’s why I’m asking.'
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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
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Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, 'He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute.' Well, this is the time for bold measures.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.
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Niemand ist so beflissen, immer neue Eindrücke zu sammeln, als derjenige, der die alten nicht zu verarbeiten versteht.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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God's help, the love of the people, the strength of Denmark.
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God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.
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What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God.
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You know you're hearing from God when you don't walk away with facts but you walk away with faith.
