Offering Quotes - Page 16

• It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Ornaments, Use, Pagan

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

  Larry Sabato

  Government, Iraq, Presidential

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• My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Father, Reading

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• My opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. I assure you I do not mean that lightly. I am not tossing out high-powered phrases to 'hype' the works of Da Free John. I am simply offering to you my own considered opinion: Da Free John's teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any time, of any persuasion.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

  "Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House". Book by Da Free John, December 1, 1980.

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• One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krishna...Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings and are prescribed by Lord Krishna Himself. Whatever else you eat, can not be offered to Him, since He will not accept it.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Vegetarianism, Vegetables, Eggs

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• The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Wine, Purple, Nuts

  Hilda Doolittle, “Orchard”

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• Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Food, Three, Pleasure

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• What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Book, Writing, Advice

  Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience-even if you risk angering or hurting that person-you are offering the most valuable gift of all.

  John Wooden

  Hurt, Believe, People

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• Offering multiple games to reach such a broad audience is a great way to create awareness about horse racing. Obviously, my favorite is the jockey game. It's very realistic.

  Chantal Sutherland

  Horse, Games, Racing

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• Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no other landmark ever could But Michael Kleen understands that these ghosts are more than just stories. As a folklorist and historian, Kleen shows readers the connection between our past and our present. Haunting Illinois is more than just a ghostly travel guide, it’s an adventure offering new insight on the haunts you know, but also takes you on a trip to the spirits in your own backyard.

  Jeff Belanger

  Adventure, Unique, Past

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• I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated that badly, that politely. We did far worse things than you can possibly dream of, but we did it with that certainly gentlemanly swagger... Dreadfully sorry, but we seem to have crushed your entire continent's infrastructure. Allow me to make it up to you by offering you a job 4,000 miles away. No, no, I insist.

  John Oliver

  Dream, Jobs, Sorry

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• We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Giving, Offering To God, Ought

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• Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Mean, Difficulty, Situation

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1960). “Selected letters”

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• It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he ends up there. Gary Condit make sense to me. He's away from his family, he's in D.C. - if he was a car dealer in the [San Fernando] Valley somewhere out there, he'd be the guy who was trying to get laid by offering you the free undercoating package.

  Dennis Miller

  Party, Guitar, Car

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• I think... you know, collaboration, in general - no matter movies, television or Broadway - is offering of what you can bring to the table and also fighting what you think the important battles are. Not everything is going to make it in there. Not everything is going to work. You have to collaborate. And you have to be a good listener.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Fighting, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 2, 2010.

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• Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Sacrifice, Soul, Obedience

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• Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Civilization, Tragedy

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• The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fun, Hippie, Goal

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

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• Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.

  Angelo Scola

  Father, Latin, Practice

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• Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Moving, Teaching

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• We have so much, yet many Americans feel dissatisfied. Somehow the full table, symbol of abundance to the pilgrims, is not enough. We yearn for something far beyond the material satisfaction. Find your place in history this Thanksgiving by stretching beyond your table. Celebrate your survival by offering peace and sharing with your neighbors. Make the shift from in illogical feeling of lack to the recognition of abundance. Invite the Spirit to your feast, and prepare to feed the world.

  Jennifer James

  Thanksgiving, Feelings, Survival

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• When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Heart, Lord

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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