Chip Ingram Quotes
"Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.
Quotes to Explore
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I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.
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God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
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The one-cylinder ward is one in which the bishop handles all the problems, makes all the decisions, follows through on all the assignments, and faces every challenge. Then, like any other overworked cylinder, he starts to sputter and behave erratically. Eventually, he burns out altogether.
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I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.
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He's so good, you wonder what's wrong with him.
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Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.
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I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.
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We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
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I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.
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You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.
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Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.
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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
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Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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For a fact, the Christians stole Christmas. We don't mind sharing it with them, but we don't like this pretense of theirs that it is the birthday of Jesus. It is the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun-Dies Natalis Invicti Solis. Christmas is a relic of sun worship.
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We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.
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We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.
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"Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.
