Walter Brueggemann Quotes
The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
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Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth. "Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.
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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
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My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.
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An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.
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I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then I got married and sold aluminum siding. My wife had problems physically. It was not good.
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I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.
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Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Society does not seem prepared to accept the sacrifices required for an effective prevention of cancer.
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The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.
