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“Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action. Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday? Or to go on your last vacation? Or exercise this morning? Probably not, but you still did it. The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.”

Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.”

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.”

Way Term Standards Discovery Math Avoiding Introduction Epiphany Premature Euler

Author:George Polya

“Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.”

Way Fear Plans Happenings One Way Just One Bad Things Pretending Concrete Avoiding You Again Avoiding Life

Book:Going Underground

Source: Going Underground

“Put simply, Clean Eating is avoiding all processed food, relying on fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains rather than prepackaged or fast food.”

Whole Eating Clean Fruit Vegetables Grain Avoiding Fast Food Processed Food Whole Grains

Author:Tosca Reno

“They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.”

Men World Way Life Is Asks Lord Temptation Concrete Prophecy Avoiding Frontiers Nests Imitating Consecrated Life

Author:Pope Francis

“Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.”

Feels Life Is Situation Series Horrible Avoiding

Author:Eli Roth

“Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.”

Life Is Surround Avoiding Too Short Life Is Too Short Surround Yourself Hanging Around Surround Yourself With People Precious Time Best Shot Life It Too Short Life Being Too Short Life Is Way Too Short Surround Yourself With Good People Surround Yourself With Positive People

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.”

Reality Situation Teacher Source Anxiety Carrie Avoiding Distasteful

Book:The Meaning Of Anxiety

Source: The Meaning Of Anxiety

“A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.”

People Thinking Men Heart Persons Has Beens Christian Hate Order Lost Heaven Christianity Changed Affection Wicked Righteous Avoiding Things You Love Wicked Things

Author:Paul Washer

“Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.”

Aim Avoiding Brevity Jargon

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.”

Trying Levels Denial Realising Avoiding

Author:Ayad Akhtar

“If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.”

Ifs May Jesus Sin Teacher Goodness Models Standing Gods Will Bless Savior Avoiding Helpers

Author:Timothy Keller

“The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.”

Would Be Numbers Keys Taxes Workers Lists Holiday Expansion Avoiding Extensions Recessions Payroll Payroll Tax

Author:Mark Zandi

“If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.”

Ifs Avoiding Nobility

Author:Boethius

“Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity, claiming the attention we withhold. The thing which calls our attention may be a repressed experience or some unexpressed and important part of who we are. Whatever we have denied may stop us and dam the creative flow of our lives. Avoiding pain, we may linger in the vicinity of our wounds, sometime for many years, gathering the courage to experience them.”

“[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an even longer heritage of church-state problems in Europe.”

Years States Problem Church Religious Europe Constitution Heritage Intolerance Avoiding Persecution Church And State Separation Of Church And State Separation Between Church And State Religious Intolerance

Book:Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context

Source: Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context

“The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.”

Way Soul Philosophy Body Death Dies Virtue Willing Pure Training Association Drag Avoiding Right Way

Author:Socrates

“Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.”

Young Evil Strong Clear Society Stupid Possibility Weak Intelligent Misery Superiors Division Misfortunes Inferiors Avoiding Mock

Author:Xunzi

“Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.”

Ifs Years Art Grows Students Arms Subtle Poetry Is Ducks Collapse Avoiding Jane Ingenious Blake Austen Milton Literary Art

Author:Terry Eagleton

“We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.”

People Thinking Giving Trying Whole Running Pain Hurt Pleasure Situation Objects Whole Life Avoiding Noticing

Author:Joko Beck

“I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy.”

People Needs Different Use Energy Too Much Including Fats Diets Fuel Dancer Sensible Avoiding Carbohydrates

Author:Deborah Bull

“Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.”

Made Whole Middle Sweet Higher Stores Meals Shops Bags Chickens Avoiding Items Potatoes Groceries Aisle Grocery Stores Periphery Sweet Potatoes

Author:Cat Cora

“I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.”

Periods Drama Avoiding

Author:Rebecca Hall

“What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?”

Ifs Trying Mind Philosophy Body Happens Psychology Risk Danger Medicine Senses Dedicated Unnecessary Avoiding Soma

Author:Sam Keen

“I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.”

Needs Avoiding

Author:Sylvia Kristel

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