Craig S. Keener Quotes
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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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God makes stars. I just produce them.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
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I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.
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At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.
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I want the respect of intelligent men but I will choose for myself the intelligent. I love art but I decide for myself what is art. I adore beauty but only my own soul shall tell me what is beauty. I worship God but I define and describe God for myself. I am an individual. The pleasure of my own heart shall be first to inform me when I have done good work.
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'I took care of the depth of my relationship with God and He took care of the breadth of my success.'
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With impassive gaze, Michael, prince of warriors, measured the extent of the disaster, and his keen intelligence penetrated its causes. The armies of the living God had taken the offensive, but by one of those fatalities in war which disconcert the plans of the greatest captains, the enemy had also taken the offensive, and the effect was evident.
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Jane Fonda was at the top of my list of women to meet and the only time I felt nervous about interviewing someone. She is one of the most dynamic women I have ever had the honor of talking to.
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Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.
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All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.
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According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.
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You know, I feel that God isn't going to put something in front of me that I can't deal with.
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You can never forget God. If you forget God, he's gon' forget you.
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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
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Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
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I wasn't happy. But in the end, I think it might have been a good thing. I did play a ton of minutes down there, and that brought up my confidence.
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I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.
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Only by depending on God’s power can we offer worship truly worthy of his honor
