Cornelius Plantinga Quotes
The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what God had put asunder. Like some devastating twister, corruption both explodes and implodes creation, pushing it back toward the “formless void” from which it came.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.
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Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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The paths to the house I seek to make,But leave to those to come the house itself.
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They can keep their God, they can keep their Light. I want the world back. I want questions, not the answer. I want my own life back, and my own death!
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There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
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Myself, I believe that black theatre continues to evolve, and the success of writers like Bola Agbaje and Rachel De-lahay is proof that fresh voices continue to emerge.
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Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
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Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.
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Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
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There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
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The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what God had put asunder. Like some devastating twister, corruption both explodes and implodes creation, pushing it back toward the “formless void” from which it came.
