Allows Quotes
1407 quotes by 1094 authors
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
— John Fowles
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God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change
— Paulo Coelho
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That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving…
— Jerry Bridges
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The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.
— Parker J. Palmer
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While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the…
— Henri Nouwen
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Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you…
— Christopher Nolan
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The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most…
— Orson Scott Card
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She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction…
— Glen Duncan
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You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele,…
— Andrzej Sapkowski
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Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without…
— Gretchen Rubin
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Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have…
— Joseph Campbell
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But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more…
— Jack Gantos
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to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from…
— David Lodge
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Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to…
— Paul Goodman
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This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to…
— Michael Pollan
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All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in…
— Joan D. Vinge
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I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our…
— James Frey
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The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so…
— Sam Harris
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