Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.
Quotes to Explore
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We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.
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I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.
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Promise a lot and give even more.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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Those who know when to halt are unharmed.
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Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.
