Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
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As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
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My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement.
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In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
