Eleanor Powell Quotes
I was married to Glenn Ford. But now I feel as though I'm married to God, and in the nicest, purest sense.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.
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Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet do they not say, 'God is infinite?' If God be infinite, no finite being can have communication or relation with him.
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Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
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My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?
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God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
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That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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USNA had a great engineering school, which was one of my interests, and I knew I would benefit from the great discipline and accountability that Navy provides.
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In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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I was married to Glenn Ford. But now I feel as though I'm married to God, and in the nicest, purest sense.
