Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition which each has of God. For every soul, seeing Him in her own way, doubtless communicates that unique vision to all the rest. That, says an old author, is why the Seraphim in Isaiah's vision are crying "Holy, Holy, Holy" to one another (Isaiah VI, 3). The more we thus share the Heavenly Bread between us, the more we shall all have.

C. S. Lewis

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

Agnes Repplier

America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

Victoria Snelgrove

We were blessed with Torie. She was a Godsend, she really was,

Val McLean

We were blessed with a pretty mild winter this year and we've been able to play outside most of the time. We have a good indoor facility but it's better to be able to practice outside as much as we can.

Clint Johnson

We were blessed with a couple of very good witnesses who saw if from start to finish.

John Carlock

We were blessed to have some young kids hungry for baseball. We're already excited about next year. We played well. We put forth the necessary effort.

Charles Dudley Warner

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice--that is, all excess--brings its own punishment even here.

C. S. Lewis

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

Sathya Baba

When your heart is filled with love, you will experience the Divine in the entire cosmos.

Charles Baudelaire

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

Guy Finley

When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely... save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.

James E. Faust

As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act.

James E. Faust

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

James E. Faust

Why does the Church grow and flourish? It does so because of divine direction to the leaders and members.

Lactantius

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

Anthony Trollope

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

Leonard Hamilton

We have to grow up. This is the type of situation that's going to test our courage, our faith and our maturity.

Joyce Kilmer

When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.

Charles de Gaulle

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.

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 Dickens

When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

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 de Gaulle

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

Erik Davis

There are a lot of faithful Vanderbilt fans who haven't had an opportunity like this.

Richard G. Scott

When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Be but faithful, that is all; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help.

Blaise Pascal

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

Elizabeth Edwards

Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

Alan Cohen

So I'm true to my unique gifts, and I make space for others. And we all end up winning.

Phil Smith

People with unusual gifts sometimes have unusual profiles,

Ward Grant

on the gifts that God has given us and our great nation.

Howard Gordon

One of the gifts the actors who do the show have is to make ridiculous situations feel real. We acknowledge when we're writing it or doing it that some things are unlikely, but it's the show and Jack Bauer doesn't work at a carwash.

Justin Chon

I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.

John Fortier

There are real questions about her, about whether she has the intellectual gifts needed for the court.

Mortimer Adler

In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.

Susan Dunn

We wanted to provide opportunities for our members to serve, and some people need sort of a push or a boost; they need a suggestion of what they can do and how they can use their spiritual gifts in some kind of service. So we opted to offer different ideas for that as well.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Justin Murphy

We have pursued her with that and given her more and more time to come up to code.

Tom Penders

We've shown a lot of resiliency. I've been real happy with this team because we haven't given up on the season.

Tom Watson

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Shaun Sipos

That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine.

Troian Bellisario

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

Tony Hawk

When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.

Brian Dawkins

Respect is not given, it is earned.

Tom Daschle

very curious, given this has been under way now for this long.

Bible Bible

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Charlotte Bronte

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

Charles Dickens

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Dickens

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Stanley

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Monica LeMoine

What the school hoped to do for these kids was to hold them accountable for their actions, which they'd never really had before.

Tyler Brand

We wanted to try and hold them under 15 points in the first half. We got out in the passing lanes, got some steals and were able to get our offense going off that.

Dan Nobbs

When it was hit, I knew it was going to be trouble. I saw it leave the infield, I knew it was gone. So it was one of those things, especially on a 0-2 count, you want something that is he going to nibble at and not really get a hold of.

Norm Bruemmer

We're just stronger in singles. We couldn't hold Elliott back anymore.

Francis Frank

We are going to hold the province to that now.

Lindsey Williams

We are holding out that something might develop. We are remaining hopeful that we can come up with a resolution prior to the 31st.

Janis Joplin

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Paul Begala

When your mission is to "restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary

Charles de Lint

One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Larry Miller

The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.

John Swofford

Ultimately, he was widely outvoted. We had to wear him down over a period of time. Finally, I think he realized there wasn't a whole lot he could say about that if that was the way the university wanted to honor him.

David McCullough

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

Dick Cheney

We are here to honor the memory of seven lost explorers,

Alan Parsons

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

Chester A. Arthur

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Carol Roth

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Leifer

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Carlos Gutierrez

We used to try to see what other work we could grab. Now our mission is to be seen as a high-technology plant.

Richard G. Scott

No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.

David Kim

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

Carolyn Porco

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,

Billie Joe Armstrong

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

M. Wolfe

There is no mission to Broadway, it's (there) just to make money,

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The blessings of the priesthood transcend our ability to comprehend.

Karen Evans

If it's useful and really needed, it will sustain itself.

Judd Terwilliger

We were never able to sustain (momentum). We'd get leads, but then they'd come back.

Paul Stone

We were never able to sustain a run.

Donna Griffin

We are trying to sustain or make more improvement.

Rick Adelman

He's in shape, much quicker. He can do the things he used to do. Now all he has to do is sustain it.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Brian Weiss

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

Brian Cox

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Michael Cloherty

Yields have cheapened up, but if the Fed's going to go further, they still may not have value at that level.

Tom Kuefler

We see the value of having our dealers involved.

Roy Blunt

This report's only of value if we use it in a positive, forward-looking way, and not try to get into meaningless blaming, who could have done what when; now that it doesn't matter, ... American Morning.

Christine Callies

We think there's a lot of value in semiconductors.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Ian Gray

It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Traci Bingham

He said she was beautiful. And that he'd never been with a woman so beautiful.

Laura Marling

Womanhood is something you dont consider until it hits you.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.