Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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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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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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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.
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The role of the artist is to create an Anti-environment as a means of perception and adjustment. (p. 31)
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What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
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Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.
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God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?
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God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
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Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry.
