Make Us Quotes

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We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are… — Libba Bray
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit… — Sarah Orne Jewett
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as… — H. L. Mencken
The days that make us happy make us wise — John Masefield
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. — Mark Twain
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or… — Azar Nafisi
Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be… — Jacques Derrida
Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They… — Ray Bradbury
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly… — C.S. Lewis
The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if… — C.S. Lewis
It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love. — Raymond Carver
Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an opening of the… — Joan D. Chittister
strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love… — Margaret Cho
Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds… — Rachel Naomi Remen
I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap.… — Cory Doctorow
Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our… — Tom Hodgkinson
Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. — Hermann Hesse
I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company. — Jane Goodall
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the… — Madeleine L'Engle
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not… — Stephen Hawking

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