Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kingsley

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

Charles Colson

Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.

Charles Colson

The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins.

Bill Hybels

It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8. Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.

Joel Madden

I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day.

Tullian Tchividjian

There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation.

Kacey Musgraves

My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.

John Piper

Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible.

C. S. Lewis

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

Rob Portman

We always come closer every time we talk.

Gerris Wilkinson

When I left, we got closer. It was kind of... we got much closer after I left. I'm not sure why that was.

Scott Atkinson

We're going down the list, ... I don't know that we're closer in finding her.

S. E. Hinton

The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.

Mike Patton

Let's just say we're closer musical friends now. A lot of these people are strangers to me. They were out of sight but very much in mind.

Magnus Scheving

'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

Andy Ritchie

We want to have a closer look at them. We'll try to get them involved in another game.

David Hume

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

David Hume

A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered.

David Brainerd

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Audrey Hepburn

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Arnold Bennett

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

Arnold Bennett

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

Dennis Lillee

Geoffrey [Boycott] is the only fellow I've ever met who fell in love with himself at a young age and has remained faithful ever since

Charles R. Swindoll

All he asks is that we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith. God is just waiting for us to trust Him.

David Hume

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

David Hume

When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither increases nordiminishes. But as it is certain there is a great difference betwixt the simple conception of the existence of an object, and the belief of it, and as this difference lies not in the parts or composition of the idea which we conceive; it follows, that it must lie in the manner in which we conceive it.

David Hume

There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto just order and proportion. Let speculative reasoners dispute, how far this beneficent being extends his care, and whether he prolongs our existence beyond the grave, in order to bestow on virtue its just reward, and render it fully triumphant.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastlingly.

Dennis Kucinich

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

Dennis Miller

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

Dennis Miller

How do we know for sure that no two snowflakes are the same - we haven't got anybody watching.

Dennis Miller

I am proof that Einstein's "e equals m c squared" is wrong. My mass has increased, but my energy has dropped.

Alain de Botton

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

David Viscott

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

David Viscott

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Hyde Pierce

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

David Hobson

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

David Icke

Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels.

David Hume

If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

David Hume

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

David Duchovny

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Caitlyn Jenner

I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

Aubrey O'Day

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

Guillaume Salluste

My lovely living Boy,My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.

Lorraine Bracco

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Michael Franti

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

Axl Rose

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Carol Lewis

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?

Kelly Shackelford

Newspapers are embarrassing themselves and showing themselves to be irrelevant; it shows people living in two different worlds.

David Hume

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

Ben van Berkel

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

Benicio Del Toro

I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in. Those are the kind of films that I like to see. Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts. Does that make any sense?

Benicio Del Toro

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading [Anton] Chekhov and [Charles] Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

August Wilson

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.

Audrey Hepburn

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

Arnold Bennett

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.