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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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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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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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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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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I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
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In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
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If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
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My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going and the things I've seen.
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Redeeming sinners from all nations through Jesus Christ was God's plan from the beginning.
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Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.
