George Santayana Quotes
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
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As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.
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Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
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We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
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The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
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It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.
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Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?
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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
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Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.
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There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don't need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.
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The greatest adventure in life - knowing God - begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a "Hallelujah!"
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When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund
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Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?
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At the coming of Christ the sons of God will be manifested by the restoration of the lost covering. Nor is it difficult to prove that the recovery of a visible glory will be the instant result of the restoration of spirit soul and body to perfect order and harmony, the sign of our manifestation as the sons of God. But it will then shine with far more intense brilliancy than it did in Adam: for, as we have before seen, the body of unfallen man was not a spiritual body. The spirit did indeed exercise a mighty and vigorous influence, but the soul was the ruling power, even as it continues to be: for the first man became a living soul.[177] But when the resurrection, or the change consequent upon our Lord’s return, takes place, our bodies will become spiritual:[178] the God-consciousness will be supreme in us, holding both soul and body in absolute control, and shedding forth the full power of its glory without let or hindrance.
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For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.
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I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone threatening your children and throwing fire bombs through your window, but He asks us to love them and that I can do.
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We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
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I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
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No one goes through life with a whole heart.
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If Islam opposes terrorism, then Saudi Arabia should announce that no one supportive of ISIS or Al Qaeda is welcome in Mecca to make Hajj.
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I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
