Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Studd

Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

Caroline Corr

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

Lee Melchionni

For him to make those shots at the end, it's a little like daggers, nails in the coffin.

Demetri Martin

I am what I eat. And I am this especially when I bite my nails.

Bob Dylan

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

Judith Curry

This new study really nails down that link.

Stephen Colbert

I have a generally liberal audience, but they will applaud when I nail a liberal lion.

Sebastian Horsley

My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

David Brainerd

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

David Brainerd

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

David Kim

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Richard G. Scott

No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

Amy Carmichael

Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

Amy Carmichael

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Charles Caleb Colton

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Charles Caleb Colton

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.