Benjamin Spock Quotes
Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God.
Quotes to Explore
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
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I believe that God wants us to show respect.
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I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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If God used evolution, God came from an ape.
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What I know for sure is that we are all created with this phenomenal force inside of us that can have us withstand - that God never gives us more than we can handle.
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I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.
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We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.
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Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God.
