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spiritual trying littles
I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out. C. S. Lewis
spiritual taken thinking
If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.
spiritual currents
There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life. Carrie Newcomer
spiritual memories believe
...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence. Carl Sagan
spiritual inspiration passion
Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other. Aron Ralston
spiritual children compassion
All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion. Bill Vaughan
spiritual believe sky
I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing. Bill Blass
spiritual reality church
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests. Bede Griffiths
spiritual powerful people
...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.
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The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Timothy Noah
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I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social. Clive Thompson
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I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. Alice Walker
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Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. Gore Vidal
cities chicago privatization
No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live. Bethany McLean
cities circles typical
Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city. Bill Bryson
cities lakes tea
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me. Bertrand Russell
cities coming requests similar
We could have other cities coming to us with similar requests in the future.
cities influence odds rules strict talking terms
We have very strict rules about what we can and can't do in terms of the USOC. What we can't do right now is lobby, ... The odds are that if the rules had not been changed, all the cities would be talking to the IOC to get it to influence the USOC.
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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. Antonin Artaud
culture hemingway produced
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
culture way needs
The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.
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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. Bethenny Frankel
culture people realize
The American people realize we have a new culture and that is one of being vigilant, Laura Bush
culture relationships whether
We need to know whether there is a culture that promotes inappropriate relationships with women,
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Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas. Reza Aslan
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We wanted to live with our art. But the pleasure is not from owning the objects. The pleasure and the satisfaction come from using the objects to glean an understanding of a culture and a society so many years ago.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that. Orhan Pamuk