Steven James Quotes

#1. None of us can know what it's like for someone else. It's what makes us individuals. We each have our own pain, our own mistakes. But we can reach out toward each other, help each other. That's what makes us human.

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#2. What would it be like to think what a gerbil thinks, from a gerbil's point of view? Kind of like Thomas Nigel's 1974 paper, 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' There's a subjective character of experience that's never captured in reductive accounts. Know what I mean?'
'Um ... Sure.

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#3. The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

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#4. Hatred is the result of beliefs. It is the fruit that falls from the tree of faith.

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#5. to be a fiction writer, you also need to be a psychologist (understanding people's personalities and intentions), a philosopher (asking big questions about meaning and human nature), and a poet (breathing life into your words and the spaces between them).

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#6. Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl.
Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.

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#7. Even if you know you're sleeping, you're still at the mercy of your dreams. People who are asleep can't simply decide to wake up. Nightmares don't let you off that easily. They hold you in their clutches until they decided, in their own good time, to let you go.

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#8. When you get the coffee from the store, does it come in a great big metal can?'
He beamed. 'Absolutely.'
That was all I needed to hear. Tea. A cup of tea.

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#9. Christianity is wild. It's intimate. It's heartbreaking and soul-mending. It's the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the God who has loved you forever. The party has just begun, and the best is yet to come.

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#10. Love isn't supposed to be something that needs to be handled; it's supposed to be the thing that helps you handle everything else.

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#11. Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.

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#12. Women should never be ashamed to be feminine. Strength comes from conviction, not from acting like a man. Being feminine doesn't mean you're weak, it just means you're proud to be a woman.

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#13. Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.

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#14. God dances with the outcast.

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#15. Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly.

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#16. God can only be of service to me and I to him, not in the past, nor in the future, but only right now in this moment.

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#17. I am a caged bird,
rattling the bars of my cage,
with furious flutterings,
break my chains!
Free my spirit!
Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul
with heaven dipped ink

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#18. People don't want to be loved, they want to feel loved.

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#19. Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.

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