Our Lives Quotes - Page 39

I like getting my ideas from the things of now. I am very conscious of the moment, of images that belong to this moment instead of another period. Fashion is really a reflection of our lives. You see women today and they don't do their hair up; they all wear their hair undone. So you have to reflect that in your photography .

Mario Testino

Photography, Fashion, Reflection

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You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own country, and one's own church. These ties that bind are vital to our communities and our lives, but they can also be twisted into a noose.

Bill Moyers

Loyalty, Country, Passion

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Many of us live our lives out of the fear of what other people think of us. We're waiting for someone to give us a permission slip that tells us it's OK to be ourselves. Don't try to be fearless or pretend you aren't impacted by fear. Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.

Chris Guillebeau

Thinking, People, Giving

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Maybe there's a universe out there - happening now - where we end up together and when I close my eyes at night, I'm not dreaming the way a normal person would. Instead I'm seeing flashes of our lives in the multiverse. They're not simple dreams because I miss you, right? They're scientific, anachronistic visions.

Gaby Dunn

Dream, Eye, Simple

Gaby Dunn (2012). “Maybe in Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn”, p.62, VOOK

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Our lives are shaped by those who love us

John Powell

John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

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We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

Winston Churchill

Building, Courses

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Improving the quality of our lives should be the ultimate target of public policies. But public policies can only deliver best fruit if they are based on reliable tools to measure the improvement they seek to produce in our lives.

Jose Angel Gurria

Quality, Target, Tools

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Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

Helen Clark

Gdp, Fundamentals, Dignity

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We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.

Jonathan Sacks

Teacher, Hero, Media

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In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.

Laura Schlessinger

Analysis, Who We Are, Way

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Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves feel pain, that we accept how small we are and how little control we have over our lives. And she demands that we make her our top priority. But she is more beautiful, and more powerful, and more surprising, and more fascinating, and more endlessly rewarding, than anything we could ever make up about her.

Greta Christina

Beautiful, Giving Up, Honesty

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The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

Henri Nouwen

Suffering, Tragedy, Want

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That's what lordship is - Christ reigning as supreme authority over our life. Making Jesus Lord of our life is not something passive. It's not a state of being, it's a state of doing. Those whom Jesus recognizes as His own are those who do the will of His Father in heaven.

Keith Green

Jesus, Father, Heaven

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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

Walter Martin

Believe, Christ, Capacity

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If by excessive labor we die before reaching the average age of man, worn out in the Master's service, then glory be to God. We shall have so much less of earth and so much more of heaven. It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus.

Charles Spurgeon

Jesus, Men, Average

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To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.

Charles Stanley

Two, Priorities, World

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Ultimately, our lives hinge on the ability to make right choices and decisions. By God's grace, I made the most important decision a person can ever make. I invited Jesus Christ to be Lord of my life and made a commitment to follow Him. God offers each of us the free gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus by "confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead" (Romans 10:9). It is a wonderful and peaceful feeling to serve a God who loves me and cares about every detail of my life.

R.A. Dickey

Jesus, Believe, Commitment

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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

Malcolm Gladwell

Taken, Thoughtful, Light

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Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.

John Calvin

Flesh, Spirit, Repentance

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Because the Holy Spirit is God, we feel Him as He controls our circumstances and transforms our lives. When He does that, He uses us. He melts us in relationships. He molds us in the pursuit and the direction of His will. He fills us with power and the perseverance to keep at it. He uses as He controls our circumstances and transforms our lives. Ask the Spirit of God to use you, just as you are, with the gifts and abilities that He's given you. Secure in the confidence that God is in control of your life, you will be free to serve Him with joy and effectiveness.

Charles R. Swindoll

Perseverance, Control Of Your Life, Effectiveness

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Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Attitude, Prayer, Done

Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

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It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

A. B. Simpson

Men, Fellow Man, Approval

A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.

A. B. Simpson

Spiritual, Want, Pressure

A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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Evil is real - and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against evil all the way. So each of us has to decide where we stand, how we're going to live our lives. We can try to persuade ourselves and wink at evil. We can say that it isn't so bad after all, maybe even try to call it fun by clothing it in silks and velvets. We can compromise with it, keep quiet about it , and say it's none of our business. Or we can work on God's side, listen for His orders on strategy against the evil, no matter how horrible it is, and know that He can transform it.

Catherine Marshall

Fun, Powerful, Real

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We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

Charles Stanley

Limits, Worst, Ability

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