Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Greeley

The role of Mary the Mother of Jesus is to reflect the woman and the love of God.

Carson McCullers

Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

Carson McCullers

But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

Charles R. Swindoll

Jesus' plan called for action, and how He expressed it predicted its success. He didn't say "you 'might' be my witnesses," or "you 'could' be my witnesses," or even "you 'should' be my witnesses." He said "you 'WILL' be my witnesses.

Charles Colson

The evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is more powerful than anything else we believe. By His resurrection Jesus proved He is who He says He is. Be confident in this truth. Stand on the Holy Word of God. Don't sell the world a false bill of goods. Preach the word. Defend the faith. Live the faith.

Charles Colson

I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

Jase Robertson

Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

Archie Shepp

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Cameron Diaz

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Ethics to me is very important.

Miley Cyrus

Even when you're acting, you still need to be true to yourself because you don't want to put on a show for the rest of your life. It is a hard way to the top, but it is also very easy to come back down as well. Also, it is really important to keep yourself rested, and whenever you need a break, take a break.

Anton Chekhov

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

Bela Lugosi

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

Diana Vreeland

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Demetri Martin

Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses.

Rob Lowe

The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

Lydia M. Child

Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals!

Thomas Jefferson

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Richard Russo

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

P. J. O'Rourke

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

Roseanne Barr

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.