Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

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I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

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I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

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Children Different Different Levels Different Personalities

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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

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End Good In The End Journey

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

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Always Beautiful Close Day

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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

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Bread Just Like Love

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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

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Above Achieve Compassion Hope

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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

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There are no right answers to wrong questions.

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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

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Alarm Morning Set Whether

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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

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All The World Fool Gives Human

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

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Intolerable Knowing Life Makes

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

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Black Little Live Makes

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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

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Development Further Hope I See

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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

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Action Gather Grows Information

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

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Become Cerebral Far He

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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

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Change Experience Human Maps

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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

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Certainly Earn Even Given

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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

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Always Be Grateful Children Grateful

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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

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Compulsion Denies Fantasies Far

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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

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Above Achieve Children Compassion

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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

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Fiction Modern Modern Technology Myth

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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

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Artist Cannot Deals Does

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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

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About Am Artist Atheist

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Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

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Fiction Fiction Writer I Write Novels

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I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

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Easy Follow Gift Got

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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

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Dead Die Everyone Going

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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

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Fear Hearing Me Myself

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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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Alter Cannot God Historians

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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

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7721 Author Quotes

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

T. D. Jakes

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

T. D. Jakes

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

T. D. Jakes

I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

T. D. Jakes

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

T. D. Jakes

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

T. D. Jakes

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

Ursula K. Le Guin

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Ursula K. Le Guin

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. Le Guin

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Ursula K. Le Guin

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.