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But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years… — Shane Claiborne
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to… — Michael Shermer
The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum… — William Tyndale
The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring… — Rob Bell
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one… — Vincent Van Gogh
I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now… — Natasha Trethewey
You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world. — Charlie Haden
I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment… — Charlie Haden
I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is no yesterday and… — Charlie Haden
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it… — Clive Bell
If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose… — Francis Schaeffer
In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is… — Ravi Zacharias
The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional… — Jonathan Ive
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and… — Patricia Hill Collins
Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge… — David Deutsch
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy.… — Siri Hustvedt
Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest… — Ruth St. Denis
Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think… — John Gierach
More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of the history of… — Unknown Author
Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten. — Dion Fortune
You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t… — Bruce Sterling
Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of… — Evan Parker
The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make it work. Politicians… — Jacque Fresco
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not… — George Gaylord Simpson

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