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• God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Peace With God, Saving, Scripture

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• You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Passion, Opportunity

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• I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath

  John J. Geddes

  Apology, Water, Swim

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• Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars
  That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
  Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
  The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife,
  The royal banner, and all quality,
  Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!

  William Shakespeare

  War, Farewell, Ambition

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 346

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• We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.

  Ansel Adams

  Light, Wind, Yellow

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• I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied,
  and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against women.
  Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections
  about the ravages of theocracy, about thoughtfulness, and about the
  ordeals of freedom-as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and
  deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great
  literature and with an inspired teacher.

  Susan Sontag

  Teacher, War, Reflection

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• Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.

  Michael Pollan

  Men, Fire, Cooking

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.38, Penguin

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• Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.

  Celia Thaxter

  Wise, Sweet, Flower

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “Letters of Celia Thaxter”

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• Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Sea, Sailor, Breeze

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.337, Ballantine Books

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• Its just the anniversary, she wanted to tell him. Its just this time of the year stirring up these memories. Everything will be all right. But she couldn't say that, because she wasn't sure it was true.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Memories, Years, Wanted

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Evercrossed”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

  Carl Sagan

  Passion, Sunset, Science

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.154, Ballantine Books

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• Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as if the trees know, in their restlessness, in their head-tossing impatience, that something is about to happen.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Sea, Tree, Stories

  Maggie O'Farrell (2010). “The Hand That First Held Mine”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus”, p.119, 谷月社

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• One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

  Dean Rusk

  Time, Two, People

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• All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair
  The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing,
  And Winter slumbering in the open air,
  Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Spring, Winter

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.281

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• I wonder if the sap is stirring yet,
  If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate,
  If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun
  And crocus fires are kindling one by one:
  Sing robin, sing:
  I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring.

  Christina Rossetti

  Dream, Spring, Fire

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.122, Delphi Classics

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• His smile brought back the best times, sweet memories of nights together... stirring up those old feelings that got me thinkin' bout forever.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Sweet, Memories, Night

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• Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

  Lewis Mumford

  Expression, Humanity, Intuition

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• You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Harmony, Disturbance, Can Not

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• Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Anon, Breeze

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.136

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• I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Thinking, Fire

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.247, Dial Press

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• The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

  George Orwell

  History, Battle, Cavalry

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

  Sam Levenson

  Wisdom, Sweet, Tea

  Sam Levenson (2016). “In One Era and Out the Other: A Life's Journey”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. "We give our children guns and computer games," Wendy said. "They gave their children the land."

  Bruce Chatwin

  Mother, Country, Children

  "The Songlines". Book by Bruce Chatwin, 1987.

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• Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon moving me to the depths, touching my heart, and stirring up within my soul a yearning to give my all.

  Mary Webb

  Moving, Heart, Voice

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