Craig S. Keener Quotes
Oral Roberts’s informal estimate of 10 percent healed (Stewart, Only Believe, 58); in the modern faith movement, see Barron, Gospel, 125–36. Van Brenk, “Wagner,” 257, cites 29 percent completely healed for Wagner (which would be quite high).
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God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.
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This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
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You’re probably smarter than you present yourself.
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We love to play. We're good at what we do.
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I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.
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I can really only can record at home.
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What doesn't kill us will only make us stronger.
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My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.
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I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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As long as we are not living in harmony with nature and our constitution, we cannot expect ourselves to be really healed. Ayurveda gives us the means.
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Scars. A sign that you've been hurt. A sign that you have been healed. Had I been hurt? Had I been healed? Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.
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The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.
