"Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness……" — Rick Bass
"Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world or some little place in time where things just feel so right and huge and powerful and easy that I will have the perhaps blasphemous thought maybe there are layers of heaven."
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24 Quotes by Rick Bass
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Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they…
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Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.
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Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where…
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I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell…
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The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you…
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The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.
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Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and…
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A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
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Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
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My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July,…
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To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.
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Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object…
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
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He who retains unchangeable in his heart the rule of the truth which he received by means of baptism will…
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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. .…
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It is blasphemous rebellion against God thatmarks the Antichrist as the final and logical expression of humanism.
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BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with…
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Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth.…
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When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue,…
— Clarence Darrow
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No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the…
— David O. McKay
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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at…
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