Gene Veith Quotes
It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people who believe that, since morality is relative, they have no sins to forgive.
Quotes to Explore
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.
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I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
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It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.
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I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
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No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
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You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
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As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
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When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
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Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
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I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.
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I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
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I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.
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I believe education is much more important than we assume.
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If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.
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Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.
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I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.
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The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.
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Fiscally I'm very conservative... others say that I'm socially moderate.
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Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people who believe that, since morality is relative, they have no sins to forgive.
