Zalman Schachter Quotes

#1. Find your major flaw. There lies your glory.

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#2. Theodicy, the philosophers call it: the problem of God's justice. The

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#3. The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.

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#4. He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

Lois Lowry

#5. Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out.

Hugh Latimer

#6. elders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world, making the abstract truths of spirituality accessible to the community by embodying them in their everyday behavior.

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#7. Good paperbacks are among the most valuable weapons of any society. Good hardcovers doubly so.

Matthew Keefer

#8. And I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.

Paulo Coelho

#9. No one who hasn't taken a vigil for the night and had it out with God can get to the place where their love and faith become real. We

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#10. I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

Andre Dubus III

#11. The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears. - Boromir

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

Norman Cousins

#13. I pay the bills, I pay for everything.

Marat Safin

#14. Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

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#15. There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

Sadie Frost

#16. God is always present. The question is, how present are we?

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#17. I have had no true friends, only lovers.

Pablo Picasso

#18. Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.

Bee Wilson

#19. When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.

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#20. Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.

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#21. We, as children of God, have an advantage over the world

Sunday Adelaja

#22. I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and remembered nightmares.

Ilsa J. Bick

#23. Don't regard yourselves as the final recipients of [...] music [...]. Instead, offer your ears and heart to heaven. Let your experience of [...] music go up to God.

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#24. When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

Bruce McGill