Steven Sample famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.
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A college president is like the lawn mower at a cemetary: he has a lot of people under him, but they don't pay much attention to him
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Congenital naysayers are among the greatest stumbling blocks to thinking free. Rather than imagining how a new idea might possibly work, they instinctively think of all the reasons why it won't. They sincerely believe that they are doing everyone a favor by reducing the amount of time spent on bad or foolish ideas. But what they really do is undermine the creativity that can be harvested from thinking free.
-- Steven Sample
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The average man. The emergence of the concept.
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The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
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Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
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We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
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When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.
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