Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

I've been in a (locker) room with some talented teams and some teams that bordered on greatness. But I don't know if I've been in a room before with so many kids that have sacrificed so much.

T. D. Jakes

If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!

Lech Walesa

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

John Piper

The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.

John Piper

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

John Piper

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

Martin Luther

Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.

Paulo Freire

[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity.

Philip Sidney

Great is not great to the greater.

Steve Jordan

Simplicity is not the same as stupidity

Richard Cecil

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Thomas Hardy

Bless thy simplicity, Tess

Matt Mullenweg

Simplicity not simplistic.

Marissa Mayer

I've always liked simplicity.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Mason Cooley

Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

Ingrid Reed

I was struck by the simplicity of it.

Mike Crapo

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

O. Henry

prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

Jan Karon

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

C. S. Lewis

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all ...

C. S. Lewis

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Charles R. Swindoll

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

Charles R. Swindoll

My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place.

Charles Colson

Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture.

Jason Bateman

Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.