Our Lives Quotes - Page 40

• As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.

  Dallas Willard

  Running, Pride, Doe

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• The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander.

  Eric Ludy

  Hands, Play, Voice

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• God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.

  J. I. Packer

  Curiosity, Answers, Scripture

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.109, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Jobs, Home

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• Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only knew what we wanted? Why do we waste our time doing things which... are just the opposite of what we were made for?

  Thomas Merton

  Opposites, Want, Waste

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.132, Shambhala Publications

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• Those who insist that a Church program exist for every contingency and need are as much in error as their counterparts who demand that government intervene in every aspect of our lives. In both instances the ideal balance is destroyed with a resultant detriment to human progress.

  Dean L. Larsen

  Errors, Government, Balance

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• Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

  Arianna Huffington

  Eulogy, Way, Celebrate

  FaceBook post by Arianna Huffington from Mar 30, 2015

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• Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

  Wayne Muller

  Successful, Effort, Suffering

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• It isn't possible to give government just a little control over the economy and our lives. Once we cede that power to government, it uses the power to take more from us. That's why every year the government controls more of our lives.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Years, Giving

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• Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, 'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' So which is it - stupidity, ignorance or insanity - that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives?

  Walter E. Williams

  Stupid, Ignorance, Men

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.58, Hoover Institution Press

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• There is no question that if one were to ask whether we Americans are moving towards more liberty or more government control over our lives, the answer would unambiguously be the latter - more government control over our lives. We might have reached a point where the trend is irreversible and that is a true tragedy for if liberty is lost in America, it will be lost for all times and all places.

  Walter E. Williams

  Moving, America, Government

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• The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only the imagination limits the kind of laws and restrictions that can be written in the name of saving the planet.

  Walter E. Williams

  Names, Law, Imagination

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• If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

  John Stossel

  Government, Important, Return

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• Remember, no matter what you background is and what your current circumstances are, you have the capacity to take action. This is one of the golden threads of humanity - we all have the power to act in a way that will improve the quality of our lives.

  Robin Sharma

  Humanity, Quality, Matter

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• We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.

  Stephen Covey

  Impact, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day fellow prisoners are taken away to be executed. We are all, like Scheherazade, under sentence of death, and we all think of our lives as narratives, with beginnings, middles and ends.

  A. S. Byatt

  Taken, Thinking, Blood

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• Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once... [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.

  Stanley Cavell

  Philosophy, Ambition, Foundation

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• Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear

  Robin Sharma

  Greatness, Self, Enemy

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 25, 2013

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• The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Hero, Past

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.204, Hoover Press

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• Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Skills, Tools, Time Management

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• Five women working together is never going to be easy. It's a lot. But God is so incredible, in terms of the timing, because we are all married with kids, in our late 30s and 40s. It's a different stage in our lives. It's not about who is going to be the one that's going to pop.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Kids, Working Together, Different

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• Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.

  Cinco Paul

  Kids, Men, Three

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• Also, this is our lives for a huge part of the year and we did not want to be in prison, 24/7. It was too oppressive. So, we were like, "How can we get out? Let's see their lives, a little bit." That was really fun.

  Jenji Kohan

  Fun, Years, Want

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• I've been trying to figure out what moment The Lone Ranger came into our lives. We've always just known about The Lone Ranger. It's common knowledge. I don't ever remember watching the television show.

  James Badge Dale

  Trying, Television, Common

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• In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

  Jim Piddock

  People, Television, Neurosis

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