Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.

Amy Carmichael

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse ...

Thomas Paine

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion.

Ted Turner

Christians are losers.

Matthew Henry

We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.

Maya Angelou

I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy—it's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.

John Shelby Spong

The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay and lesbian people. But the Christian church, in both Catholic and Protestant forms, resisted every one of those humanizing developments. The church was on the wrong side of all three of those fights.

John Piper

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

Martin Luther

Christians are rare people on earth.

Ron Jones

We didn't have that five-minute lapse of making mistakes to give the other team the opportunity to win. With the exception of the second half of the South Plains game (a 71-62 loss on March 2), I thought we've been playing hard. We just had those possessions on offense and defense where we hurt ourselves and we didn't do that (on Monday).

Vance Arnold

We had several guys step up and hit the ball. Sixteen hits and we played great defense and earned some respect.

Fisher DeBerry

We had several breakdowns where the players didn't execute the defense that was called.

Oleg Kalugin

We had scores of sources throughout the Indian government ? in intelligence, counterintelligence, the defense and foreign ministries and police,

Charles Williams

We had poor shot selection, turnovers, no rebounding and just poor defense all the way around.

Marvin Emerson

We went smaller at the end. For years, we've said that defense wins championships, and we played pretty good defense in the last minute and a half.

Kawika Shoji

We went into the game knowing it would be our team game that was going to stop him and not one individual. It was a great team defense that was the key.

Eric Keller

We have experience at several positions, but truly lack depth. We must stay healthy in order to compete. The defense will have to mature in a hurry to be ready for NLL play.

Ted Kerner

We have experience and leadership up the middle. Braden directs the defense plus he hits in the middle of the lineup. He is a big part of why were successful this fall. He does a lot of little things that you don't see him do that makes everybody better.

Alan Nicholl

Twenty-some shots is a tremendous game, offensively. For them not to score a goal, you have to hand it back to our kids; they put up such a great defensive effort.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Steven Soderbergh

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

Matt Watson

It's an easy way to make a quick getaway from the school environment.

Ron Clarke

More guys will see the field. It's kind of an audition. You want to play, you start battling.

Tony Russa

I feel like in that series, just like all year long, when things got tense, each of those guys made pitches, and we kept the lead,

Scott Podsednik

I can't say enough about what our starters have done this series. Our pitchers have set the tone for us all season long. It does something for the offense when you know those guys are out there battling.

Larry Eustachy

I can't imagine what those guys and their program have been through. We respect them as much as any team in the league.

Pat Kelly

Because he's hit so much better on the road than at home, ... you guys probably haven't seen it.

Tim Ruskell

Certainly, there was a lot to do. We were right in the middle of the free-agent deals. We had 16 guys looking. ...But we all rolled up our sleeves.

Flip Saunders

Chauncey looked a lot livelier. A lot of guys looked a lot more livelier tonight.

Eddie Guevarez

By that time a lot of guys showed up to make sure I was all right.

Phil Garner

Hopefully, that will get worked out and whatever happens, we'll be prepared to go with it. I don't think it's going to have anything to do with how guys are going to go about their business.

Chloe Sevigny

Most of the models have this thing I call slouchy sexy, not only in the way they dress, but in the way carry themselves. I don't think they would look hot in one of my dresses. They are more into A. Wang. Most of my clothes are nerdy sexy.

Colin Firth

Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.