Christopher West Quotes
If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.
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Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
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Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
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But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must look back to see the contrast with the place we came from. You see, we cannot reject the world of the cocoon - which out which we may create a new cocoon. When we see the suffering that occured in the old cocoon, that inspires us to go forward in our journey of warriorship. It is a journey that is unfolding within us.
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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
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He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow When I attempt the ineffable Name, murmuring Thou… (“Footnote to All Prayers”) Lewis proceeds to acknowledge that when he says the Name of God, his best thoughts are mere fancies and symbols, which he knows “cannot be the thing thou art.” Then with postmodern sensitivity, Lewis ponders the inadequacy of human language and perspective: And all men are idolators, crying unheard To a deaf idol, if Thou take them at their word. Even as we pray, then, we must count on God to take our misguided arrows and magnetize them toward their goal. He concludes: Take not, oh Lord, our literal sense. Lord, in Thy great, Unbroken speech our limping metaphor translate.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
