Charles Grandison Finney Quotes
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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Those things that are most dear cannot be drowned - the grooves and the second line, the way you feel inside when you hear Professor Longhair. Even when you're sitting down, that's in you.
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My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.
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The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.
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Those who show off do not shine.
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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.
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Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.
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Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?
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I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing
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It's important to take criticism seriously - not personally.
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A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.
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I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing.
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.
