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"Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself."
"Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered."
"It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward."
"People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact."
"Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend."
"I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable."
"I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow."
"I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking."
"I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it."
"Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions."
"I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic."
"I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?"
"Instead of asking yourself what everyone else's opinion is going to be and how your action will be perceived by others, ask yourself, 'How do I want my life to be lived?' Then proceed to take a small risk in the direction of that new action."
"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new."
"You got to stop asking your politicians how they are going to do this or that..."
"If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone."
"When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?"
"I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back."
"I think the question is who am I? That's what we all should be asking ourselves. Who am I? Well, if I am first a Christian conservative then that dictates my response to all questions so my response first as a Christian conservative is to vote consistent with my value system."
"Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend."
