Mike Donehey Quotes
Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
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They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I'm starting to find my own style.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.
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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.
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Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'
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If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
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Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.
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What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief.
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Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.
