Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 18

• I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Thinking, Littles, Sometimes

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• intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Fun, Woven, Provoking

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• I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

  Kim Harrison

  Reading, Plot, World

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• One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

  Elie Wiesel

  May, Matter, Share

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• As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Kindness, Reality, Exotic

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• Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

  Francis Chan

  Fall, Study, Traps

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.382, David C Cook

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• Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.

  Francis Chan

  Beautiful, Jesus, Brother

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.77, David C Cook

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• Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.

  Steve Pavlina

  Mirrors, Choices, Feel Good

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• Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

  Steve Pavlina

  Desire, Want, Matter

  Steve Pavlina (2010). “Personal Development for Smart People”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?

  Steve Pavlina

  Strong, People, Why Not

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• If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.

  Steve Pavlina

  Choices, Boss, May

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• Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.

  Steve Pavlina

  Rejects You, Definitions, Be True To Yourself

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• All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Communication, People

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• If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

  Michel Odent

  Inspiring, Children, Team

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• A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

  Eda LeShan

  Inspiring, Dream, Baby

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

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• Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

  Louise Erdrich

  Inspiring, Baby, Strong

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• Intelligence and genius

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Genius, Provoking

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• I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

  George Thorndike Angell

  Time, Kindness, Animal

  George Thorndike Angell (1884). “Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections”

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• A disciple is a disciple maker.

  Francis Chan

  Makers, Provoking, Disciple

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• We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Powerful, Inspiration

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.170, David C Cook

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• Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Children, Book

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• The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

  Francis Chan

  God, Jesus, Crazy Love

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.42, David C Cook

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  One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  "Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

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• I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

  Francis Chan

  Salvation, Provoking

  "Francis Chan Takes On Hell". Relevant Interview, relevantmagazine.com. June 07, 2011.

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• Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

  Francis Chan

  People, Giving, Energy

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.51, David C Cook

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