Preoccupied Quotes
114 quotes by 104 authors
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He…
— Karen Armstrong
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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied with work that…
— Watchman Nee
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I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
— Betty Ford
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When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail…
— Matthieu Ricard
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We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.
— Alan Wolfe
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed…
— John Ortberg
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
— Samuel Johnson
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The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses…
— William Ralph Inge
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We live in a society of social networks, with Twitter pages and Facebook, and that’s fine, but we have contact with our work associates, our…
— Brady Quinn
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There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
— Norman Mailer
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Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.
— Jeff Goldblum
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A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.
— Sheryl Crow
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Many are so preoccupied with what others think it defines their existence. When we fixate externally, it keeps us from truly knowing ourselves and our…
— Jillian Michaels
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a…
— Edward Abbey
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The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON FOR JESUS COMING CAN BE…
— Brian D. McLaren
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Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, "Let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds."…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958, because we still…
— Hugh Latimer Dryden
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Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things…
— Henri Nouwen
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I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract,…
— Claes Oldenburg
Who Wrote These Preoccupied Quotes
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