Craig S. Keener Quotes
Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I have a couture body.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.
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We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.
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Whether we shall continue to be a Government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people
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One may well use one’s head even though one is in love. Someone has said that one cannot prevent lightening from striking – but one may prevent the whole town from burning down.
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.
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My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.
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Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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God made me pass through the disciplines of various paths. First according to the Puranas, then according to the Tantra. I also followed the disciplines of the Vedas...I practised all sorts of Sadhana .... During my Sadhana period I had all kinds of amazing visions.
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We as humans are so imperfect. We are always looking for something more and always going astray from Jesus. Whether you believe in him or not, but he is always there with open arms. God never abandons you. He is always waiting for you to come back and when you do, you won't be scolded - you will be embraced.
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To make the people happy, to forget their problems. Then, to me, I'm doing my job. But to act is a God gift.
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Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.
