Abba Quotes - Page 2

• There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself as a more profound and worthy recipient than, for instance, any of the brilliant Motown or girl-group lyricists who are more likely to be awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry than for literature. Whether there is more truth and humanity in his best lyrics than in Abba's, or less, is unquantifiable, and it would be meretricious to attempt such a calculation in contesting an argument he has been dragged into.

  David Bennun

  Girl, Attitude, Believe

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Compassion, Shows

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.48, NavPress

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• The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, "Abba, Father.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Father, Teaching, Heart

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• If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ." But if you have not got your foot upon the lowest round of the ladder, you will never come within sight of the blessed face of Him who stands at the top of it, and who looks down to you at this moment, saying to you, "My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?

  Alexander MacLaren

  Children, Father, Blessed

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.83

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• I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

  Camilla Lackberg

  80s And 90s, Pops, Pop Music

  "Sweden’s Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg’s Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who? (VIDEO)". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

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• When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular and when U2 invited Benny and I on stage to sing Dancing Queen, I just assumed we were being sent up. But now I see they were paying tribute to us

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Queens, Fall, Dancing

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• Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.

  Madeleine Albright

  Puppets

  "HARDtalk" (BBC), May 17, 2004.

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• Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Differences, Israel

  "Obama: Israel Has "True Partners" In Peace In Abbas, Fayyad". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 21, 2013.

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• When Abba Anthony thought about the depths of the judgments of God, he asked, 'Lord, how is it that some die when they are young, while others drag on to extreme old age? Why are there those who are poor and those who are rich? Why do wicked men prosper and why are the just in need?' He heard a voice answering him, 'Antony, keep your attention on yourself; these things are according to the judgment of God, and it is not to your advantage to know anything about them.'

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Men, Voice

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• Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard, you can lay a new foundation every moment. Abba Pimen said, To throw yourself before God, not to measure your progress, to leave behind all self-will; these are the instruments for the work of the soul. The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Mother, Hard Work

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• There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

  Jane Harman

  Leadership, Thinking, Benches

  "Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. June 8, 2005.

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• When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

  Serj Tankian

  Soul, Listening, Bees

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other." "Choose a friend," I said. "Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul." I nodded. "Reuven, if you can, make Danny Saunders your friend." "I like him a lot, abba." "No. Listen to me. I am not talking about only liking him. I am telling you to make him your friend and to let him make you his friend.

  Chaim Potok

  Teacher, True Friend, Two

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• To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.

  Taylor Hawkins

  Summer, Bees, Periods

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• In that most burdensome moment of all human history, with blood appearing at every pore and an anguished cry upon His lips, Christ sought Him whom He had always sought—His Father. “Abba,” He cried, “Papa,” or from the lips of a younger child, “Daddy.” This is such a personal moment it almost seems a sacrilege to cite it. A Son in unrelieved pain, a Father His only true source of strength, both of them staying the course, making it through the night—together.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Pain, Father

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• I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign teddy bear that there is no aberrant behavior or desire of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, who is infinitely compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, and unwieldy Mystery.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Father, Desire

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• ABBA was a direct influence on me.

  Beth Ditto

  Influence, Direct

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• President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Children, Believe, Years

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• Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Confused, Compassion

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• Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Jesus, Fear

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.160, Multnomah

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• There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.

  Jack Straw

  Determination, Commitment, Reality

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• I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

  Pope Francis

  Teacher, Jesus, Father

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 01, 2013.

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• I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

  Tammin Sursok

  Parent, Listening, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11-12; Isa. 53:3-5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.' (Mark 14:35-36.)

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Past

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