Mike Yaconelli Quotes

I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life.

Mike Yaconelli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 24, 1942 - October 30, 2003

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It's definitely a little bit ironic being known for my hair because, as a little girl, I had no idea what I was doing with it. I was insecure about it. I didn't have as many references to curly girls, and I wanted to just fit in with all my other friends.

Jillian Hervey

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People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

Jill Clayburgh

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I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.

Jennifer O'Neill

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I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.

John Hodgman

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My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

Sufjan Stevens

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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Simone de Beauvoir

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No news is good news.

Ludovic Halevy

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I consider myself an honest soul.

Luke James

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All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.

Jules Romains

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New York - I'm connected. This is my core. I feel like if I'm not connected to New York, then I don't even know what to do with myself.

Jay-Z

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Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.

David Small

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