Alveda King Quotes
Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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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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Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
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I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
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I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.
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While I was born in Singapore, I didn't actually grow up here. So I don't remember all that much.
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Expect temptation to your last breath.
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Power draws you in; it's something we can gravitate toward.
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Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.
