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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. E. Stanley Jones
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. E. Stanley Jones
I was crying and laughing, snuffing tears and blood, bumping at him with my bound hands, trying awkwardly to thrust them at him so that he could cut the rope. He quit grappling, and clutched me so hard against him that I yelped in pain as my face was pressed against his plaid. He was … Read more
I seem to have three categories of readers. The first is nonbelievers who are glad that I am reading the Bible so they don’t have to bother. The second group, which is quite large, is very Biblically literate Jews. And the third, which is also very large, is Christians, most of them evangelical. The evangelical … Read more
America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live. David Alan Grier
Is it how she moves, or how she looks? I say it’s loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she’s got noise, she’s fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music’s ended. Dar Williams
There’s something to play if there’s conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that’s where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you’ve got something to play, there’s layers to it. Clive Owen
I think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in a new and bizarre kind of digital totalitarian state – one that looks and feels democratic on the surface, but has a fierce undercurrent of fear and technologically enforced fascism any time you … Read more
When you look at things like social media, that’s an immensely powerful tool that I’m all in favor of. I think it’s amazing. It’s a powerful tool, and it’s one that we’re, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It’s like we’ve grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock … Read more
The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world & its connection with the time past & with Man; that it involves the question of Man & his relation to the brutes, of instinct, intelligence & reason, of Creation, … Read more
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words … Read more