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Avoiding Quotes

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Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Living as a Christian is less about abstaining from wrongs than it is about fearlessly and energetically executing God's desires.
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Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing
Soichiro Honda

Instead of dreading the test and disappointment, be scared of sidestepping the exam and being inactive.
3.
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
John of the Cross

One who shuns supplication is eschewing all that is beneficial.
4.
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
Cesare Pavese

5.
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.
Julie Kenner

6.
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
Syd Barrett

7.
Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.
Wayne Dyer

8.
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
Jean de La Fontaine

9.
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald

10.
Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.
Douglas Crockford

11.
Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.
Kosho Uchiyama

12.
The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity
Robin Sharma

13.
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
Antoine Rivarol

14.
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul Tillich

15.
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
Bill Watterson

16.
It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.
John Grisham

17.
We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.
Charlie Munger

18.
There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
Neil Gaiman

19.
When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.
David Allen

20.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
Boethius

21.
I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.
Margaret Atwood

22.
The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.
David D. Burns

23.
The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.
Steve Redgrave

24.
Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.
Dalai Lama

25.
In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.
Sathya Sai Baba

26.
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'Rourke

27.
Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.
Maggie Stiefvater

28.
Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.
Pope Francis

29.
I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.
Ani DiFranco

30.
Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
Charles Yu

31.
To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.
Stephen Chbosky

32.
It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.
Geneen Roth

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If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, “He’s avoiding it.” If I do talk about it, it becomes, “Oh, he’s proselytizing.”
Tom Cruise

34.
Actually, when you get into your sixties and above, you want to think about exercise differently. It's not just about you know cardiovascular or lifting weights. It's also about avoiding accidents.
Dan Buettner

35.
Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.
Cyril Connolly

36.
I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.
Richelle Mead

37.
You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.
Fred Thompson

38.
I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.
Sarah Dessen

39.
Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!
Edwina Findley

40.
I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.
Sylvia Kristel

41.
It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.
Cassandra Clare

42.
Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.
Theodore Roosevelt

43.
There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
Francis Bacon

44.
There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
Errol Morris

45.
You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.
W. Kamau Bell

46.
It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding
Steig Larsson

47.
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
Horace

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Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.
Margaret Atwood

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If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram.
Gabrielle Bernstein

50.
Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.
Paulo Coelho