Bishop Noel Jones Quotes
In order for you to receive a blessing beyond your ability to understand, Hebrews 11:6 says you must believe that God is and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
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I do believe in happy-ever-after.
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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
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Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
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I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.
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I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
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I'm somebody who doesn't believe in conforming to maybe whatever is on the radio.
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I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism - a human being is exercising extremism - in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.
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It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.
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Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.
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I resolved passionately to reach the spiritual causes of phenomena, and to dominate the material world which I detested by their means. I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
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I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.
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In order for you to receive a blessing beyond your ability to understand, Hebrews 11:6 says you must believe that God is and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him.
