Elaine Pagels Quotes

The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God.

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• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
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• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
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• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

  Warren Spector
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• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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• The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Work
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• I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Think
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• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• Everything I do now is a first.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • First
  • Everything
  • Now

• The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Mother
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• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • World
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• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
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• I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Country
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• I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Always
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• In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Change
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• Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

  

  Maimonides
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• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
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• I was brought up as a normal kid.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Up
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• Cure the disease and kill the patient.

  

  Francis Bacon

• The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction

• We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Build
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• Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • God
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• I see God every day... For God is in everything I see.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • God
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• The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God.

  

  Elaine Pagels
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