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.

Reuven Rivlin

We have no say in anything. What will we do if the Palestinians declare a state? How can we even stop them?

Guy Hohenhaus

We're looking for an exit, at what point in time do we declare this over.

Lyndon Johnson

Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope, some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. This administration declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Anirvan Banerji

Despite the general eagerness to declare that the soft patch is behind, the return to robust growth is nowhere in sight.

Tim Hodson

The special election may be an albatross today, but it won't necessarily be one in 2006. If even one of his initiatives passes in November, the governor could declare victory.

Fred Warren

Sometimes they don't play it off at all in these tournaments. They just declare co-champions,

Kathleen Blanco

seemed uncertain and sluggish, hesitant to declare martial law or a state of emergency, which would have opened the door to more Pentagon help.

Bible Bible

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

Mike Johanns

It would be a grave mistake to declare this round at end,

Anderson Cooper

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

Mike Dowd

It's exactly how I would have drawn it up.

Dave Lieberman

They were like, great, now look, ... I was always drawn to the kitchen.

Robert Hartwig

It's the price of paradise, ... People are drawn to landscapes.

Keith Wyness

They are probably the toughest of the sides we could have drawn but you have to take what you are given,

Kim Rupert

It's a done deal. We're looking for a fairly long, drawn out Senate trial.

Bryan Larrison

(Athens) played us well, and everyone else average. (Athens) tied Newark (1-all Dec. 10) and Pickerington (3-all Nov. 11). For some reason, we've drawn them on a Friday and they've struggled the rest of the weekend.

Michael Vick

It wasn't how it was drawn up. I had to make some extra moves. ... Tried to make some magic.

Todd Haynes

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

Charles Caleb Colton

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

Charles Stanley

God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.

Charles Stanley

Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your faith is increased as you pray and watch how God answers your prayers. God says in Jeremiah 33:3, Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know. God is awesome in power and there is never a time when He is not beside you. He is faithful and holy.

Charles Spurgeon

Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

Charles Spurgeon

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

Charles Spurgeon

We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.

Charles Spurgeon

Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

Alan Watts

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

Gene Coppola

We want to take the next step forward as any good organization would.

M. Russell Ballard

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

Ted Mayer

We are pleased with these trial settings and the prospect of things going forward on a rapid basis. By the last part of the second quarter of 2006, we'll know a lot more about the parameters of this litigation.

Bob Foster

We've all been slowly working our way back. I still didn't make any money in 2004, but we're taking good steps forward this summer.

Kevin Jackson

We started practicing in the spring, planning and looking forward to playing in this game and winning it.

Craig Stevens

We are looking forward to the discussion. We want to make sure that all parties are at the table as we move forward.

Scott Drew

We are looking forward to next year now that we have a full season. I?m just proud how our team stuck together and handled adversity. There was a lot of prayer time.

Matt Rodgers

We are looking forward to hosting our last home match Monday. We have several good teams coming. Our guys would really like to play well.

Christopher Hill

We are looking forward to getting things going as scheduled, ... What we really have to do is ... identify the way forward and see how the principles will actually work in practice.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Alan Watts

Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.

Charles Colson

Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

Theodor Mommsen

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

David Platt

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.

Randy Savage

Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!

Max Lerner

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

Maajid Nawaz

When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

Nhat Hanh

The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom.

Chuck D.

We're just releasing a little tension. We've already prepared. We had some stuff left over, and we've restocked on other supplies.

Kevin Keen

About 3 minutes left I took a timeout and I just told them that we have to get back to playing as a team. I think they took it to heart...they know what got us here and from that point on we took control.

Larry Davis

It's kind of a non-issue. If it were in his left side, it would've been more of an issue.

Robert Parker

They needed to do it. If this restructuring is left to year three out of the three-year plan, I think the market is going to be unimpressed.

Jeffrey Lichtman

This case, what is left of it, is a limping wreck.

Kevin Wright

They stacked the line of scrimmage and then spied Darren. That left nobody on the quarterback. We'll take whatever people will give us.

Kilari Paul

They said 'You get on and go,' and they left him behind.

Pete Johnson

There was no sign of life from the devastation left by Katrina.

Jonathan Klein

There weren't that many options left that made sense for someone of Aaron's stature, ... a mutual decision.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

Chris Bell

When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.

Alexander McCall Smith

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Michael Novak

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

Harry Shum, Jr.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Charles Manson

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

Robin Cook

There is no question at any stage of Tony offering me his resignation nor at any stage of my thinking that he should be resigning,

Carl Jung

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

J. Taylor

would be normal for these indictments to dropped.

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Scott Tucker

It was something unexpected. I didn't know this was going to happen. I just wish more could have been done to prevent it.

Ben Bernanke

Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.

Robert Belshe

Preventing influenza in children, we think, will reduce influenza in our society.

Roger Smith

That?s good. It prevents the big earthquakes from coming.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

David Card

At some point, you want to prevent the other technology from being adopted.

Neil Ferguson

To be effective, ... you really must use a combination of strategies. No single one would successfully prevent an epidemic.

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Barbara Tuchman

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

Bernhard Schlink

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Donatella Versace

You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.

David Foster Wallace

...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

Talib Kweli

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

Rene Char

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

Tom Bissell

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Howard Dean

we're going to find a way to stay in one way or the other.

Byron Katie

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Avril Lavigne

Keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through. We'll make it through. Just stay strong, cause you know I'm here for you. I'm here for you. There's nothing you could say. Nothing you could do. There's no other way when it comes to the truth, but keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through.

Blanka Vlasic

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

Deron Williams

We're just trying to stay alive. We're going to play 'til they tell us we can't play anymore.

Shawn Barber

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

Gary Brackett

It's exciting. But I'm not one to get content. I'm one for staying hungry. I think we can play better.

Dave Tippett

They play a game, and you have to stay with the game. You can't deviate.

Jason Bowen

They stayed right in there, and after the first 10 minutes, Greenwood was never a threat to us.

Richard LaGravenese

I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!

Rick Springfield

Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.

Janet Weiss

You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.

Mike Judge

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

John Nash

I thought of the voices as... something a little different from aliens. I thought of them more like angels... It's really my subconscious talking, it was really that... I know that now.

Axl Rose

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.

Hank Azaria

I have no new voices - they've all been used.