Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

Charles Spurgeon

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

Charles Spurgeon

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

Charles Spurgeon

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.

Richard Smith

We strive to provide a place of gathering and understanding where people of all socioeconomic backgrounds can come together,

Mike Mason

There is no nuclear- or radiation-monitoring program targeting mosques or other places of gathering by Muslim or any other particular group of citizens.

Dalai Lama

As a lay person I recognize that this doesn't happen enough, ... gathering of people to listen to some wonderful words.

Marshall Curry

I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers.

D. James

There is a long history of people gathering in the same spot at the same time every week, or after work. A new guy could come in and see what the latest news was and what's going on in sports. Before people had TV and telephones it was one of the only meeting places we had; one of the only places to go and get local news.

Kevin Flanagan

We understand that ASR is a gathering of the tribe, and we wanted to make sure the issue was covered.

Melissa Caldwell

We're just gathering and labeling information, ... We're not telling people what they should be offended by.

Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

Susan Lyne

Music helps set the tone for any occasion. Martha's selections for this compilation will make any holiday gathering more festive.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Kenneth Bonert

When I was growing up, Mandela's name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn't see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.

Judith Clark

It's been talked about, but we haven't gotten there yet.

Noe Cerezo

It's just a matter of time. The kids are getting it together and it's one of those things that half of them don't have the experience. They can play, it's just sometimes you need the experience, too, and it's gotten better every time.

Jacob Cruz

It's just one of those things where it's just gotten worse and worse. It got to a point where I don't think I could probably play out there for nine innings.

Rob Davis

A lot of schools are interested in him because of his speed and strength. He could have gotten a lot more yards Friday, but we didn't want to show too much.

Jeff Hawkins

The young guys were really anxious. But I think they've gotten over their stage fright. They'll be calmer this time.

Mike Hatch

They never have been particularly interested in our input, and I don't know how we would have been able to give input had they asked, ... There's no way we should have gotten involved.

Shaw Wu

They had to do this to reset expectations -- things had gotten a little out of hand. I think that it was the prudent thing to do.

Arthur Vint

This has been great. We've gotten a lot of promotion out of it.

Arne Glimcher

Everything happens through relationships.

Matt Mullenweg

I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!

Rick Smith

You don't look for these things to happen in Park Hills, but in today's world, it's here,

John Cohen

Tomorrow, we'll get a big hug going, and we'll talk about past times, and then the first pitch will be thrown, and he won't see John Cohen, he'll see the enemy. I won't see Pat McMahon, I'll see a team that we're trying to beat. That happens a lot in this league.

Travis Wight

We remembered. That's why we made sure it wouldn't happen to us.

Zell Miller

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

Red Cavaney

What happens when we don't have a year like this one?

Jim Mills

What happens to those people with severe memory lapses? How many of those people have they contacted, how many times have they been invited into their houses. How people who have nobody to call, so we don't know how many people this has affected.

The Vikings

What happens on Lake Minnetonka stays on Lake Minnetonka.

Ruben Diaz

They don't actually show the (sexual assault). They show where he was leading her off into the hallways ? as she said he was doing.

Verle Valentine

It's the second leading reason people miss work.

Al Leiter

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

Patricia Clarkson

I've always wanted to be leading lady/character actress.

Kim Il

The Western media wonder why I am leading a reclusive life,

Klaus Steinbach

We have proved our leading position in the world.

Lawrence Lindsey

We have rising real incomes for households, leading to rising real consumption. That looks unlikely to be disrupted,

Theodor Mommsen

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Michael Dell

and we are a leading seller of servers, storage systems and other technology products and services.

Guy Caruso

We're not predicting that we're just saying that's possible.

Larry Niven

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.