Gene Veith Quotes
When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.
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The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
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Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.
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I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life.
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Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them. I did so then, and finally it seemed that I had only come up against yet another proof of how splendid and shadowy our friendship was, how long and complicated Lila’s suffering had been, how it still endured and would endure forever.
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When we look at the undiluted, radical message of Jesus, we see that it was never about wearing a theological label, subscribing to a particular theological structure, or even about becoming a Christian. The undiluted message of Jesus is, and always has been, a straightforward invitation to follow him, and to learn to be like him.
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When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.
