Risen Quotes - Page 13

• I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am.

  Erik Rutan

  Adversity, Who I Am, Challenges

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, War, Soldier

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Sun, Christianity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• What's really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.

  George Saunders

  Technology, Way, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Democrats want to celebrate their successes but don't want to look out of touch with the people who haven't risen much in the last decade or so really.

  E. J. Dionne

  People, Looks, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our reality. And, so, we have to work even harder as writers against this tide of silliness, against this tide of superficiality, against this horrible Greek chorus on Twitter where everyone is insulting each other and now we have an insulter-in-chief, who's risen to the presidency by insulting people.

  Hector Tobar

  Appreciation, Reality, Space

  Source: www.slate.com

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• [Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

  George Weigel

  Jesus, Prayer, Speak

  Source: eppc.org

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• I write about this in The Last Temple, the early church knew that Christ has risen from the dead, and so they didn't live their lives with earthly vanities, but they lived their lives for eternal verities. And I think that if we might catch that enthusiasm and the reality of resurrection, we would live by a completely different standard as well.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Writing, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• At a time when the public is sour on politicians, have no use for them, Bill Clinton has risen to a different level. Bill Clinton is endlessly interesting.

  Mark Shields

  Interesting, Levels, Bills

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

  Naomi Klein

  Freedom Of Speech, Cacophony, Free Speech

  Naomi Klein (2000). “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies”, Vintage Canada

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• If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

  David Ricardo

  Proof, Ifs, Values

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.85

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• We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

  Alan Shepard

  Past, Agency, Rise Above

  "The Flight of Memory - Mercury Reunion Honors Glenn's Voyage" by Elizabeth Kastor, The Washington Post, p. G1, February 21, 1987.

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• The apostles suffered incredible persecution and died horrible deaths in the Christian cause. The only possible explanation for their zeal was that they had actually seen, talked with and eaten with the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. If Christ had not really risen and had not appeared to the apostles, would they all have died for a lie?

  Fritz Ridenour

  Christian, Jesus, Lying

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• I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .

  R. S. Thomas

  Kings, Passion, Heart

  "Song at the Year's Turning : Poems, 1942-1954" by R. S. Thomas". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1955.

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• The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Liberty, Facts, Corruption

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.138, Harvard University Press

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