A Quotes
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“As believers in Jesus Christ, our work is to believe while God works on our behalf.”
Source: The Confident Woman Devotional: 365 Daily Inspirations
“As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.”
“As believers, we each have a different essence of existence”
“As believers we have no need to fear death. Christ himself assures us of a safe arrival home in heaven!”
Source: Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About
“As believers, we should make the Kingdom of God visible to the people”
“As believers, we were given positions of tremendous authority and leadership.”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus
“As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of life and love? And as believers, how can we fail to feel the duty to surround the sick and those in distress with the warmth of our affection and the support that will help them always to embrace life?”
Source: A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World
“As believers, our joy and peace are not based in doing and achieving, but in believing. Joy and peace come as a result of building our relationship with the Lord.”
Source: Be Anxious for Nothing: The Art of Casting Your Cares and Resting in God
“As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.”
“As believers, we are running the race together. We are connected by our faith in God and our love for the world that He sent Christ to save. So if one gets weak, we carry them. We aren't called to stop moving forward. We aren't called to criticize each other. No, we are called to encourage each other, to reach down and carry each other, and to keep moving.”
“As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.”
“As believers, you don't need to pray for a new heart, you need to pray for a new head.”
“As bellhop closes the door behind him, you are left with a feeling of security and relaxation. Your mind starts to drift, and you wonder to yourself, who else has stayed in this room?”
Source: Room 702: Six Degrees of Brendan Sullivan
“As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world.”
“As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.”
“As Bertrand Russell once noted, among the strongest advocates that the poor should work more are the idle rich, who have never done any.”
Source: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
“As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.”
Source: When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That
“As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years.”
Source: Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?
“As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.”
“As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“As best she could, in her secluded position, she was considering how she might secure further choices, and what they might be — once this, her first free choice, had played itself out.”
Source: Elske
“As between mileage and experience choose experience.”
Source: Enter, conversing
“As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.”
“As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.”
“As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.”
“As bibliotecas, por exemplo, são espaços maravilhosos que, atualmente, correm perigo de vida. Muitas pessoas com responsabilidades políticas pensam que as bibliotecas são obsoletas nesta era da Internet. O que está longe de ser verdade. Muitas estão a usar a Internet de forma inovadora, quer no acesso aos livros quer no acesso à própria Internet. Além disso, as bibliotecas não têm que ver só com os livros. Representam um dos poucos espaços públicos que não preferem a carteira ao dono da carteira.”
Source: Notes on a Nervous Planet
“As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.”
“As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.”
“As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.”
“As bills shuffled like playing cards, Bernice thought of how she'd earned each dollar, all the weeks and months and years spent as librarian of the Savage Crossing Public Library; all the library checkout cards stamped with due dates, the books shelved and reshelved, the late fees waived. Pride swelled beneath her breastbone, not because she'd soon be walking around with money in her purse, but because during her career she had introduced reluctant readers to perfect books at least a few times. Such a simple act could sometimes be life-changing.”
Source: Bernice Runs Away
“As biological beings, we humans - anchored to our biology - can only experience a thermodynamic arrow of time in one direction but given our rapid technological advances and the forthcoming Cybernetic Singularity, that might change for good. The ultimate effects of future developments may appear quite strange to us, present-day humans, as the emergence of things like personalized 'non-linear' reality and fluid distributed identity could challenge our current biological and cultural assumptions. The resulting 'identity' architectures will transform our notion of personhood and form the kernel of posthuman civilization.”
Source: The Physics of Time: D-Theory of Time & Temporal Mechanics
“As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.”
“As biology meets technology, biotechnology emerges as the architect of groundbreaking scientific innovations: from cellular mastery to societal progress.”
“As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.”
Source: Imaginations
“As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.”
“As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the undermining labels they place on us. We pay attention to what our community situation is and what we need.”
“As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. Then there's a backlash, and if folks stop pushing, it goes down. Let's face it, it's a lot more complicated.”
“As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.”
“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”
“As Blake turned around to continue his walk back to Main Justice, he spotted one of the tourists taking his picture. “Don’t waste your film!” Blake yelled at the man. “I’m not that important!” But the $500 stuffed in the photographer’s back pocket argued otherwise.”
Source: Scavenger Hunt
“As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'”
“As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.”
“As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.”
“As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall Street. It's the growing federal debt (and weakening dollar) being enacted by those Washington politicians - the ones who want to protect us from Wall Street.”
“As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have earned the wrath of voters, who will learn in due course how inadequate the nostrums of liberal Democrats are to the crisis of our times. If I cannot in good faith cast a vote against the Bush years by voting for Obama, I can at least do so by withholding my vote from McCain.”
“As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.”
“As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.”
“As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.”
“As both a racketeer and a man who turned a profit, he won a place in his father's heart. Huvat broke open his green books and blew prayers after him. He permitted Seyit to smoke in his presence and to shine up his stiletto and spin the chambers of his revolver. After he had bowed in daily prayer, Huvat offered his salutation each time and implored Allah to multiply the strength and power of his son.”
Source: Sevgili Arsız Ölüm