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“People - Catholics and non-Catholics - are amazingly open to begin again in their walk with Jesus and in the Church when they hear clarity and honesty. What they don't put up with, thank God, is dishonesty and cover-up. And so I speak as openly as I possibly can about the difficulties of the Church because we shouldn't be afraid to call out an abuse of the wonderful gift God gives to us of the Church. When we - its members and its leaders - are imperfect we need to change. We need to begin again. That begins with honesty.”

People Needs Giving Jesus Speak Church Walks Leader Wonderful Honesty Members Abuse Difficulty Catholic Clarity Thank God Imperfect Dishonesty Need A Change Cover Ups Begin Again

Author:Jonathan Morris

“The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.”

Self Christian Joy Spirit Suffering Opportunity Given Attitude Trouble Sorrow Difficulty Regard Sacred Reactions Pity Resentment Crowns Thorns Self Pity Fatalism Given Opportunity

Author:James Stewart

“I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down.”

People Writing Records Mouths Difficulty Dialogue

Author:Steve McQueen

“Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful and a lot of movies that studios hold up as examples and you go, 'My God, that isn't even a story. It isn't even two acts. It's eight set pieces drawn out with slow motion.' The difficulty for me was that you had to hope that people were interested in this kind of a story.”

People Looks Kind Two Stories Successful Pieces Example Difficulty Response Studios Eight Lowest Slow Motion Lowest Point

Author:David Fincher

“The real difficulty for smaller films, when they're made independently and it's time to go for a distributor, sometimes if it's a tough film and the people who financed it need their money back right away, it's much easier and lucrative to take a DVD deal.”

People Ifs Needs Made Real Sometimes Film Deals Easier Tough Difficulty Dvds Distributors

Author:Willem Dafoe

“The difficulty, then, is when you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too, is a beautiful idea, but millions of people died when communism became an ideology.”

People Ideas Beautiful Church Millions Danger Difficulty Died Institutions Ideology Communism Dogma

Author:Michael Haneke

“People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.”

People Knows Want Care Hours Half Records Fans Produce Band Difficulty Don't Care Release Concerts Equipment

Author:Slash

“Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.”

Wanted Film Ready Difficulty Prize Sincere Festivals Short Films

Author:Michel Ocelot

“To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand”

“Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with a CO2 tax far exceeds that with a cap-and-trade plan. We're seeing it's hard to get a cap-and-trade plan and it's much easier to use as a basis for a global agreement than a CO2 tax.”

Hard Use Plans Seeing Easier Taxes Degrees Bases Difficulty Trade Agreement Elsewhere Exceed Caps Reduction Co2

Author:Al Gore

“I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.”

Humans Self Space Support Building Difficulty Human Life Proven Ecosystems Circuits Sustaining Proven Wrong

Author:Charles Stross

“I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).”

Long Sides Term Space Effects Difficulty Illness Medical Long Term Damage Radiation Proven Exposure Side Effects Deep Space Proven Wrong

Author:Charles Stross

“Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge of presenting it in an original and engaging way. I have no problem imagining stories, characters, distinctive settings & themes - but the difficulty is choosing a voice & a language in which to present it.”

“Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.”

Ifs Sometimes Running Effort Huge Percent Difficulty Impact Details Minors

Author:Michael Schumacher

“I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.”

Kind Clear Quiet Difficulty Calm Crystals Complication

Book:Hitchcock

Source: Hitchcock

“Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.”

Firsts Soul Fall Christ Difficulty Creeds Commandments

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no longer have difficulties with the Creed, but with her Commandments. The heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, but of action.”

Thinking Way Mind Action Church Modern Objects Difficulty Creeds Commandments Heresy

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.”

Giving Should Soul Reason Desire Prayer Love Is Love You Giving Up And Love Difficulty Satisfaction Your Soul Ease Never Giving Up Persevere

Book:The Prayers of Saint John of the Cross

Source: The Prayers of Saint John of the Cross

“In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.”

People Men Has Beens Reason Law Purpose Known Wise Divine Authority Importance Difficulty Accepted Remarkable Submit Evident Resorts

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about grades, just as I never thought to wonder what Tarzan might bench press. I found the closer I moved to sport, the closer I felt to science - and the closer I moved to adventure, the closer I felt to greatness.”

Might Found Felt Sports Wonder Saws Greatness Adventure Difficulty Moved Presses Grades Ingredients Climbing Benches

Author:Peter Croft

“I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.”

Giving Long Christian Found Belief Church United Difficulty Complicated Statements Doctrine Articles Usual Confession Reservations Christian Doctrine

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“We have had so many years of prosperity, we have passed through so many difficulties and dangers without the loss of liberty - that we begin to think that we hold it by divine right from heaven itself ... It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.”

Thinking Years Heaven Loss Liberty Danger Divine Difficulty Harder Prosperity Preserves Divine Right

Author:John C. Calhoun

“The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.”

Trying Humans Easy Race One Thing Difficulty Human Race Always Trying Dodge

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.”

Has Beens Real Use Seems Interest Ability Views Records Difficulty Variety Publish Publication Present Day

Author:Vannevar Bush

“One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity.”

Firsts Together Lost Groups Mass Difficulty Rewards Stupidity Punishment Grants Troops Brutal Distress Here And There Whispering Small Groups Pinnacle

Author:Sun Tzu

“The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he beforehand anticipates. In a moral point of view, the effect ought to be, to teach him good-humored patience, freedom from selfishness, the habit of acting for himself, and of making the best of every occurrence.”

Feels May Views Acting Moral Teach Cases Effects Danger Ought Habit Difficulty Point Of View Selfishness Traveler Assured Anticipate

Author:Charles Darwin

“A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.”

Needs Writing Wells Seems Natural Difficulty Felicity Fluent

Author:Joseph Joubert

“I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.”

Want Faces Accepting Difficulty Perseverance

Author:Ameen Rihani

“What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?”

Difficulty Defeat Triumph Angle What Is Life

Author:Ameen Rihani

“A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.”

Ifs Has Beens Difficulty

Book:A Survey of Physical Theory

Source: A Survey of Physical Theory

“I want my audience to leave the theatre with positive emotions through this sensorial journey in the world of precious and fragile teenage beauty. And also the idea that the difficulties that we have to go through help us reveal who we really are.”

World Want Ideas Helping Emotion Audience Journey Difficulty Theatre Fragile Teenage Positive Emotions

Author:Alante Kavaite

“An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.”

Inspirational Funny Science Brain Education Empty Difficulty Emptiness Rubbish True Believer Empty Heads

Author:Eric Hoffer

“No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum mechanics. Of course, when you solve one difficulty, other new difficulties arise. You then try to sove them. You can never solve all difficulties at once.”

Trying Courses Findings Difficulty Solve Arise Consistent Description Quantum Mechanic Relativity Quantum Mechanics Electrons

Author:Paul Dirac

“It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.”

Would Be Literature Difficult Influence Degrees Difficulty

Book:Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959

Source: Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959

“The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.”

Thinking Way Understood Difficulty Manage Sociology

Book:Language and Symbolic Power

Source: Language and Symbolic Power

“What you want to acquire, you should dare to acquire by any means. What you want to see, even though it is with difficulty, you should see. You should not let it pass, thinking there will be another chance to see it or acquire it. It is quite unusual to have a second chance to materialize your desire.”

Thinking Want Should Mean Desire Chance Difficulty Dare What You Want Acquire Unusual Second Chance Another Chance

Author:Yosa Buson

“This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!”

Hard Growth Challenges Risk Hard Work Smart Lows Overcoming Difficulty Crisis Entrepreneur Credit Consumers Teamwork Unemployment Tenacious Slow Growth Work Smart Consumer Confidence

Author:Oliver DeMille

“The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.”

Mean Doe Effort Progress Conditions Flower Difficulty Plant Finest Adjustment

Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...

Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...

“A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties.”

Humans Moving Order Steps Difficulty Limitation Midst Confronting Small Steps

Book:The Name of God is Mercy

Source: The Name of God is Mercy

“I have a lot of difficulty in a business culture that is only interested in making money. I can't see the point. What's the point of spending £10,000 just to make £20,000? Why not just keep the £10,000?”

I Can Culture Difficulty Spending Making Money Why Not

Author:Peter Saville

“An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.”

Doe Reader Difficulty Damage

Author:Evariste Galois

“It is the things we think we know - because they are so elementary or because they surround us - that often present the greatest difficulties when we are actually challenged to explain them.”

Thinking Knows Difficulty Surround

Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.”

Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation

“Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.”

Source: Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh

“A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever. But they come from the fact that a small number of wealthy and powerful people who run dangerous and/or inefficient companies are able, through the use of money in the political process, to prevent the government from regulating them properly.”

“I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family.”

May Share Identity Protect Daughter Difficulty Encounters My Daughter Sisterhood

Author:Linda Goldstein Knowlton

“The difficulty is the levels of secrecy we had to maintain around the project at all different times. We had to keep it a secret while making it so we could move under the radar so we could get the stories. Before it came out we had to keep it on lock down to protect the safety and security of some people who appear in the film.”

People Different Stories Film Moving Levels Secret Security Protect Projects Difficulty Safety Locks Secrecy Radar Different Times Safety And Security

Author:Amy Ziering

“I find it very annoying that so many animal advocates talk about the difficulty of being vegan. Many animal advocates are inclined to make the issue their suffering and not the animals' suffering, and I suppose that accounts for part of the reason that veganism is portrayed as such a "sacrifice." And many animal advocates are not vegans, or are "flexible vegans," which means that they do not observe veganism at all or not consistently, and emphasizing the supposed difficulty of veganism is part of justifying their own behavior.”

Mean Reason Suffering Animal Issues Sacrifice Behavior Accounts Difficulty Vegan Annoying Consistently Flexible Veganism Animal Suffering

Author:Gary L. Francione

“The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical.”

Thinking Has Beens Art Political Culture Subjects Intellectual Difficulty Complexes Oppressed Theologian Magician Intricate Feats Impediments Arcane

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.”

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

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