Charles Grandison Finney Quotes
Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts... Time will make this plain.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
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I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.
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It was intended as an earthly reflection of paradise not just for Mumtaz Mahal, but also for the visitors who would visit it over the years. In fact the larger Taj complex with its forecourt of the Jilaukhana complex and the surrounding bazar and caravanserai zone were meant to accommodate travelers.
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Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.
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In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.
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about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
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At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.
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If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
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We're going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.
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It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don't celebrate my humiliations and my insults.
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I have taken an oath already to the United States of America to protect and defend the Constitution. That is the only oath I will take.
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Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season.
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True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.
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If you're unhappy with another person's behavior, pray about it and be honest and open in dealing with it in the right kind of way.
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally.
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The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
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Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts... Time will make this plain.
