Works Quotes
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History works itself out in the living.
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I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.
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If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully we parse our Hebrew and Greek sentences, no matter how precisely we use our dictionaries and trace our etymologies, no matter how exactly we define the words on the page, if we do not appreciate the way a metaphor works we will never comprehend the meaning of the text.
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If one would praise the Almighty, one must then revel in His works, and take them whole, adore their very grossness, savor the oozing quiddity of that slime of which He seems to be inordinately fond. Love is not nice. God's love assuredly is not; and human love, its copy, must not presume to be so.
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When people tell me they're trying to meditate, I always know they don't have a format yet that works. I encourage a real meditative format that you use daily, because meditation is incremental and it only works if done every day.
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If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.
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Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent.
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Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.
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There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Don't bother.
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School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.
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Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.
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They really make sex into such a horrible thing and how terrible anything related to sex is, but isn't that why we're all here? We wouldn't be here at all if two people in our past hadn't been horny for each other, that's how it works. So we can't continue unless people keep being horny for each other, that's just the way it is.
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While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like Pavel Chekhov and Lev Tolstoy, and their ability to portray our human struggles and joys.
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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.
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Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.
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Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all.
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My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
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Whatever good works ye send on before death... ye shall find with God.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
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I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
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I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship.
