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We need to resist all the attacks of the enemy and not get caught in his provocations

Sunday Adelaja
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A Warrior of the Light does not waste his time listening to provocations

he has a destiny to fulfill.
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Almost pedantically, she added: "They're not really bombs-- they're acoustic provocations.

J.G. Ballard, Millennium People
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Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

Nicholas Kristof
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The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.

Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
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The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

Søren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

Søren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
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In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.

Søren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
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The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard)

Charles E. Moore, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
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In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed and streaming world.

George F. Will, One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
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