Walter Hilton Quotes
When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
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Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.
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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.
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Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
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We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
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I have never seen the Old Testament prophets, but at the sight of that man floored by divine anger, widely straddling his enormous porcelain urinal and shielded by the tornado of his arms, a cloud of desperate contortions, above which his voice rose still higher, alien and hard-I came to understand the divine anger of holy men.
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The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.
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Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
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Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.
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When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
