Quotes 2741 till 2760 of 3862.
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The church exists to train its member through the practice of the presence of God to be servants of others, to the end that Christlikeness may become common property.
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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.
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The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.
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The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the excitements, passions, and fantasies which have to be repressed in a humanistic age.
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The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.
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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
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The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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