Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aghason Paul

The apostles of Christ set about on mission throughout the world and St Mark evangelist went to Egypt. At the time the Egyptians suffered a lot with roman domination.

Martin Chemnitz

Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun.

John Piper

As much as we can, let's defend the truth by pointing to what the apostles taught, and let's call out sin by pointing to the inconsistencies between what we say we believe and what we do.

Bible Bible

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

Saint Ignatius

We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.

John Wycliffe

What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?

Michael Horton

Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God's intention in marriage is for a man to leave his parents and join himself to one woman.

Adam Clarke

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

Lewis B. Smedes

True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied.

Irwin Rose

Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

Dev Hynes

It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that's not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it.

Donald Trump

The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.

Anton Seidl

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

Morten Olsen

We have always kept the spot open for Jesper. Now he feels ready to join the squad and we are of course happy for his decision.

Omar Nelson Bradley

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Roger Baird

We have worked on golf courses around the world but found that working in the serene setting of the Barona Indian Reseration was one one of the most inspiring projects we have been involved with,

John Hackney

We just didn't manage the course very well. It's a mental grind and we didn't handle it very well.

David Jennings

We can send up a request and of course we would send up a request after speaking with the elected officials, including the sheriff. It wouldn't just be my issue I would take input from each of those people and if that is what they wanted then we would request it. But just because we requested it doesn't mean the governor would issue it.

Bob Schmidt

From the city's standpoint, there's really nothing we can do about it. I don't know of anything we can do to forbid this type of activity. It's kind of out of our control.

Richard Yamarone

God forbid this happened next year when we'll have a new kid on the block, ... We did have that with Greenspan in 1987, and he did fine.

Lino Spiteri

God forbid that the rules of the political game should be played about with in the manner proposed by Gonzi.

Lysander Spooner

Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving of the child, as if the wrong of enslaving the parent had never been perpetrated.

Latin Proverb

When anything is forbidden, everything which leads to the same result is also forbidden

Karl Kraus

Love between sexes is a sin in theology, a forbidden intercourse in jurisprudence, a mechanical insult in medicine, and a subject philosophy has no time for.

Sun Tzu

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

Murray Gell-Mann

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

Yolanda Adams

God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

Imani Hakim

I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'

Gloria Gaither

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

Gladys Knight

I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God's greatest creations, I really do. They're interesting and intriguing.

William Hamilton

The will of the world is never the will of God.

William Hamilton

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Vincent Bugliosi

I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

Yehuda Berg

God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

Ezra Taft Benson

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Walter Lippmann

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Dave Bristow

The 19-year-old turned himself in after we got in touch with him.

Patrick Modiano

Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

Graham Arnold

Michael Beauchamp I thought was outstanding tonight, and he's put himself right in calculations (for the World Cup).

Marge Simon

Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead.

Terri Smith

Who knows what he's going to do. It's two different programs. You go from Kent State to Michigan State, that's two different worlds. He owes it to himself to go there, take a look and see what they have to offer.

Dusty Baker

You let him be himself and try not to put any more pressure on him.

Bobby Cox

Jonathan has come a long way since he was a little teenager. He's made himself into a real nice player.

Chris Smith

John's been preparing himself for this role for the last three years. This is his time to shine. He's really impressed us with his work ethic. He's got to make the plays that we know he can.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

Larry Brumley

I think they were trying to be sensitive. Obviously, Baylor is a Baptist-affiliated institution, and Baptists as a denomination have been pretty outspoken on the record about the denomination's views about the homosexual lifestyle.

E. O. Wilson

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

Doug Stanhope

I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

Amber Rose

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

Alveda King

In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.

Abby Wambach

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

Robert Ford

that homosexual sodomy is the same as marital sex.

Abner Louima

They said it was a homosexual thing. The cover-up started there.

Ron Hebert

You always want to win. But we went into the jamboree with the intentions of looking at some different rotations.

Susan Hill

We're pretty stubborn. Their intention is to run us out; our intention is to stay.

Tom Gavin

He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement.

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Gigi Brown

I didn't have any intention of leaving, but I took a chance.

David Mitchell

Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,

Viviane Reding

We have no intention to regulate the internet,

Meir Sheetrit

We have no intention of starving the Palestinian people.

Nick Saban

We have no intention of moving or trading Jason Taylor .

Ezra Taft Benson

'What would Jesus do?' or 'What would He have me do?' are the paramount personal questions of this life.

C. S. Lewis

Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

C. S. Lewis

We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.

Cecelia Ahern

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

Carrie Underwood

I'm not the first person to sing about God, Jesus, faith [or] any of that, and I won't be the last. And it won't be the last for me, either. If you don't like it, change the channel.

Carl Sagan

My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas Jefferson attempted to excise the Pauline parts of the New Testament. There wasn't much left when he was done, but it was an inspiring document.

Bethany Dillon

After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never noticed before. I was struggling daily with pride and insecurity, homesickness and loneliness, with the burden of picking up my cross and following Jesus. This journey produced a new hunger for redemption in me.

Bethany Hamilton

I guess my faith in Jesus Christ is what kept me going day by day. I just trusted in him and I believe that he's the one who gives me the strength and ability to overcome struggles and problems day to day. I'm just grateful for him, as he has blessed me with just an amazing family that has supported me through every step of the way.

Bethany Hamilton

I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

Igor Luksic

Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

Will Poulter

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of Rock', right up to trying to raise money to pay for a venue in Edinburgh.

Alexander Lebed

The peace process is in motion. The joint patrols are working; local commanders have started to withdraw troops.

Jacques Chirac

We have been totally unanimous in our reaction and have shown solidarity, the G8 and the states that joined us for this summit,

Irving Berlin

We joined the Navy to see the world, / And what did we see? We saw the sea.

Michael Dunne

You can have 10, 15 or 100 rooms joined together. You also can have people log into the meeting as a participant through their laptops with an IP address.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Joining a new church and starting a new life is never easy and often frightening.

Rick Harper

It doesn't make sense to think of them as two counties. They are joined at the hip.

Jerry York

We'd really have liked Vermont to have joined the league next year.

Idina Menzel

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

Gillian Armstrong

Maybe women should leave time for themselves and their relationships and just have some fun.

Michael Lloyd

That would leave the other one to merge with Union Pacific.

Samir Inamdar

We have already talked with Zimbabwe with the view of having their team come here before we leave for Bangladesh.

Rick Riordan

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

Bruce Bowen

To leave that and become disciplined to the point where you realize, 'OK, maybe now is not the time to take one in transition'... him getting that is huge.

William J. Wills

We have been unable to leave the creek.

Noelle Quinn

We're used to warm weather, leaves on trees and being able to walk outside without a jacket. But we're not here for the weather, we're here to play basketball.

Larry Davis

Mick and I share the same philosophy - don't leave any stones unturned - and that's serving us well in our situation.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

C. S. Lewis

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

C. S. Lewis

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Bette Davis

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

Anthony Storr

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Anthony Storr

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Bertrand Russell

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

Bertrand Russell

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

Richie Sambora

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

Bela Karolyi

You are already winners every time you step into this gym. And, parents, you are to be congratulated.

Brooks Yang

We need to remember that we won?t always be playing for our parents.

Hannah Kent

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

Thomas Brinkman

You always think parents don't know. Parents know a lot more than you think they know.

Parry Aftab

I have 11,000 volunteers working for me, and I still can't keep up. I don't know how parents would.

Hallie Eisenberg

What? What is this? ... My sister and I wrote a little play for my parents. How is this out there?

Mary Long

We are first time parents and we're in our fifties.

Naveen Andrews

I already had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. They wanted me to get a proper job, like any right-thinking parents would.

Rep. Hogue

I feel real strong that violence should be in (the statute). We need to give parents a tool to protect their children.

C. S. Lewis

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Benjamin Rush

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them...

Bible Bible

For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Charles Spurgeon

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

Charles Spurgeon

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.

Blaise Pascal

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Richard G. Scott

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

Austin Farrer

The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.

Yao Ming

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

Etel Adnan

We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

William Shakespeare

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

B. F. Skinner

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

Esai Morales

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

William Shakespeare

Highly fed and lowly taught.

Dan Hawkins

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Christopher Gorham

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.