Randy Alcorn Quotes
This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread, like a cloak of black dust, was always around me.
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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
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When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.
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I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.
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This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.
