Anne Provoost famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?
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Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.
-- Anne Provoost
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All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.
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Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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The hand is no different from what it creates.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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