God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
We are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please; we make the Holy Scriptures the rule… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
“We all have an innate, unquenchable desire to know we are valued, to know we matter. Yet affirming this in each other… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Give your manifestations no choice but to come to fruition. They have to because you said so. Keep affirming, visualizing, scripting, saturating,… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I think, a general anxiety, after the end of the Cold War, to find a new basis for affirming American nationhood. And… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you’re positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes,… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Remind Youth: It is not necessary to look for confidence. It is there – potentially yours and never hidden; awaiting a commanding… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Opening up space for ourselves is a life-affirming act, a sacred act. I believe we must all be allowed to affirm and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“The truth is revealed to those who desire to know, but also to those who will take the time to take action… — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love to make music that makes people feel mood-enhancing, life-affirming brilliance but I just make whatever comes out at the time… — Eliza Doolittle Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing… — David Abram Copy Share Image
You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest.… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you… — Simon Doonan Copy Share Image
In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi… — Edwin Black Copy Share Image
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision… — David Boies Copy Share Image
Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect,… — Alexander Waugh Copy Share Image
Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this,… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
I didn't sit down and write a song like, "I want to write a song about this," but I just spent so… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care,… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
To be honest, I am not theatre-trained and though I am confident in my skill set, to do theatre requires a better-tuned… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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