The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
BILL VAUGHANWithout taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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