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.

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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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  • Up
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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.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
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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.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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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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• An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

  

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• The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.

  

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• I am not my own light unto myself.

  

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• God's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that.

  

  Glen Campbell
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• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  

  Donald Miller
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  • God
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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.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • God
  • Mercy