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• We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Blessing

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.183, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.

  Euan Uglow

  Trying, Doe, Looks

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• Jesus came to save us: let us not reject this marvelous gift!

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Rejects

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• The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time.
  God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Opportunity, Views

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.

  Christopher Columbus

  Laughter, Inspiration, Mind

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• We know we should be completely humble. We should stop thinking that we're very marvelous because we're not. We are interesting at best because we are a part of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humble, Thinking, Interesting

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• Coming to know the hidden and forgotten Mother and the marvelous wisdom of the sacred feminine as revealed from every side and angle by the different mystical traditions is not luxury; it is, I believe, a necessity for our survival as a species.

  Andrew Harvey

  Mother, Believe, Luxury

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.187, North Atlantic Books

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• Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.... My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather would say we ought to go out and look at it once in a while so we don't lose our place in it.

  Robert Fulghum

  Stars, Space, Heaven

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.140, Ballantine Books

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• There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, Community, Development

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.82, Beacon Press

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• I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sight, Years, Imagination

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• There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Book, Buffon

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• Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Hands, Use

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.152, Discovery House

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• There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack... you will make marvelous demonstrations.

  Al Koran

  Thinking, World, Abundance

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• Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Sweet, Gold, Littles

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Annie R. Rentoul, Grenbry Outhwaite (2016). “Fairyland”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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• There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to write a song, making tiny tweaks, reading it out loud, shifting things to make it sound a certain way... Sometimes it feels like digging out of a hole, but sometimes it feels like flying. When it's working and the rhythm's there, it does feel like magic to me.

  Susan Orlean

  Song, Reading, Writing

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• How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Inheritance, Broads

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• We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

  Albert Finney

  People, Groups, Alabama

  Interview with Paul Fischer, Dark Horizons, December 2, 2003.

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• Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Night, Cold, Hell

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• But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  America, United States, Multitudes

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.157

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• Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

  John Banville

  Writing, Civilization, Long

  "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

  Napoleon Hill

  Powerful, Imagination, World

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• I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's a marvelous feeling. That from existing, I am not existing. And at that moment, nothing can happen to me.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Feelings, Moments, Conscious

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• There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.

  Stuart Wilde

  Spiritual, Fun, Expression

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.117, Hay House, Inc

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• Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Decision, Sake, Determined

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• Every realm of nature is marvelous.

  Aristotle

  Realms

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, p.1872, Catholic Way Publishing

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