S. T. Joshi Quotes
God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
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There's so much bigotry that needs to be overcome.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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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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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.
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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
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What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man’s animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God’s sanctity
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Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.
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I think everyone deserves dignity.
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I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it can become an intense personal experience. Manila can be chaotic and spiritual, dirty and divine, gritty and gorgeous all at once. If you don't find beauty and poetry here, you will never find it anywhere.
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God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.
