Lisa Samson Quotes

#1. You should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth.

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#2. Life took you right to the edge of where you wanted to go, then turned left.

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#3. What are we doing? Have we really drifted so far off course? We have it all, don't we? We get along, live comfortably. But what's it all really for in the long run?

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#4. Personally, I like to imagine the Godhead dancing it a rhythm of its own, something even grander than a waltz, touching, tasting, smelling, seeing, and hearing, creating wonder after wonder, and when it's finished, looking upon the handiwork and saying, This is great!

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#5. Great Drew, you're sitting here about to beg Daisy's forgiveness & you wont even give your own father the time of day. Mother Teresa once said, "You only love Christ as much as the person you love the least." Sometimes I can't stand that woman.

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#6. I just don't see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn't want us to eat cheese, would he have let man invent it?

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#7. I realize we can destroy ourselves in ways so deep we'll never return to the place we were before we started the destruction - Valentine

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#8. Movie Jesus is a whole lot different from Bible Jesus

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#9. God wasn't giving me a megaphone. He was telling me to shut up. To be still and know.

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#10. There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.

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#11. There's enough ugliness in the world without having to feel guilty about the beauty.

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#12. Jesus, do you always show up like this, at the craziest of times and in the oddest of places? I sure hope so.

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#13. But the true miracle of the resurrection wasn't so much the raising. Is something like that too hard for the God who made the universe? The true miracle is in the forgiving. And though we are bruised and burned, blind and broken, we are forgiven.

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#14. My breath caught in wonder and surprise and I remembered that during the darkest of hours, God is.

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#15. Man, I wish God wasn't starting to shake us up like this. Wouldn't it just be easier to care about stuff like dinnerware, golf, school uniforms, and getting to that new resturant that just opened?

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#16. I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.

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#17. From two niches (to use Barber's word), North and South, we've splintered into hundreds of thousands, a nation of tribes connected not by kinship or even creed. We're merely tethered together by the Internet, by our brand loyalties and shared consumer obsessions.

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#18. If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that's the truth. I'd do the cooking and leave the decorating to her, and we'd be inseparable.

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#19. Although I doubt He [Jesus] said "believeth" as He was Jewish and not a fancy-pants English fellow.

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#20. Jesus was always at the wheel, but he's not particularly cautious. In fact, he takes hairpin turns at seventy miles per hour if you want to know the truth of it. But as he is God, I've always figured he knows how to drive better than I do.

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#21. I guess this thing we call faith is a climb. I always wanted to think of it as a big slide straight into the arms of God who waits at the bottom to catch us. But instead, He's a God who's on top of things - & like any mountain you climb, the closer we get to Him, the steeper the terrain.

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