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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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.
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The first day I was in a daze thinking, ‘What am I doing? What’s my role?’ and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band.
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Public trust is essential to public safety.
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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.
