William Henry Willimon Quotes
Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.
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You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
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My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.
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We're going to raise a lot of money to hopefully help rebuild some schools in the areas that have been devastated.
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Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
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I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.
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May those who witness the miracle be confirmed in their faith, and may you and your idols be forever disgraced!
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We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.
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I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.
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True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.
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the idea of having someone that knows nothing about the floor or trading is a non-start.
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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
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Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.
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And I'm gonna miss everybody and I'm gonna miss everybody when I'm gone.
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Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.
