Elijah Parish Lovejoy Quotes
Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
Quotes to Explore
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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I lie, I cheat, and I steal.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
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I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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To me, going for a tie means kicking the extra point for a tie instead of going for a two-point conversion to win.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth - yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams.
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Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
