Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vance Havner

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

Samuel Rutherford

Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.

Wiz Khalifa

Your every breath of life is so precious, so don't waste any moment of life while sitting idol.

Walter Lippmann

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

Nicki Minaj

My best and worst 'Idol' moments? I don't have a worst 'Idol' moment... I've been spectacular. Yes, I am going to toot my own horn. And then my best moment is every single moment. I'll toot it again!

R. C. Sproul

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

R. C. Sproul

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

Joseph Sobran

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

Lily Allen

Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my fans - it's about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?

Woodrow Wilson

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

William Gurnall

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.

James M. Barrie

He was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second. He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland, that everytime you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them of vindictively as fast as possible.

John Calvin

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

Madame de Stael

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

John C. Calhoun

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

Edward Gibbon

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies.

Nina Totenberg

He may be for conservatives what (Justice William) Brennan was for liberals.

Rebecca West

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

William J. Brennan

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Woodrow Wilson

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

William J. Clinton

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

William J. Clinton

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

Vandana Shiva

The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.

Valerie Jarrett

We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them -- the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control.