Anthony de Mello Quotes
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept 'God.'
Quotes to Explore
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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David James Elliott and I keep in touch via phone.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.
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I want to be known as a guy who, regardless of circumstance, always gave 100 percent, always went the hardest and the smartest. Pray up, inspiration to God, put in what I get out.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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I'd like to take a course in writing. I'm not the best writer in the world. I'd like to write more neatly, even though people don't send many handwritten letters these days.
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Whether it's a designer or a musician, I think the most important thing for people who express things are to be unique. There should be something unique only to them.
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Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.
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The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept 'God.'
