Craig S. Keener Quotes
Sure, sir, I will,” I promised, “but I just want to tell you first that Jesus loves you.”
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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You either are or you're not.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
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However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.
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And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.
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Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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Sure, sir, I will,” I promised, “but I just want to tell you first that Jesus loves you.”
