Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

Camille Paglia

The Devil is a woman.

C. J. Cherryh

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

Catherynne M. Valente

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

Bill Johnson

The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows.

Bill Johnson

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

Bill Johnson

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

Tawny Toering

When I was in elementary school I always looked up to high school students.

Jeffrey Clark

Lunch (at the two elementary schools) was a little longer than normal, but it will be until they get used to it. But they were hanging in there,

Todrick Hall

I was introduced to theater by a teacher that found me when I was in elementary school. She tested me for the Gifted and Talented program, started taking me to see the 'Nutcracker Ballet.' I got involved.

Josie Loren

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.

Tiffani Thiessen

It's funny - in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani.

Lauren Holmes

I got into writing in college... well, in elementary school. But in college, I started writing seriously and had a professor who read my writing and gave me permission to pursue that as a real effort and time-consuming effort.

Aimee Bender

I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.

Grazia Deledda

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

Joe Blodgett

When they extended their zone, the floor shrunk. It was like playing on an elementary school floor for us.

Chinua Achebe

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

David Walker

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Benjamin Franklin

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Charles Osgood

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Aristotle

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Willie Wells

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

Albert Einstein

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

Mark Tinker

With the multiple storylines and recurring characters, they took storytelling for the masses and made it into something sophisticated, intelligent and emotionally complicated.

Robert Anderson

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

Khaleda Zia

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

Tom Watson

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.

Brian Koslow

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Brian Koslow

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

Samuel Smiles

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Josefa Iloilo

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

John Metcalf

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

John Gay

Tis woman that seduces all mankind, / By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Felix Rohatyn

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

Sammy Cahn

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

Dick Cheney

We are not going to simply stand by.

Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Michael Franti

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Dale Parsons

We want somebody who's going to do a lot for the county. We're not going to rush.

Dave Reed

We want somebody who is really going to do it.

O. Winston

We're just waiting for somebody to fall. It's going to happen.

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney. Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney, ... Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Rich Rodriguez

Somebody just has to step up and take over. With our backs, somebody will do it.

Cliff Herberg

Somebody is supplying these lawyers. They've got an agenda.

Doug Adkins

Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Dickens

Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!

Charles Stanley

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

Charles Stanley

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Charles Spurgeon

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

Charles Spurgeon

Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

Alan Watts

Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

Theophilus London

I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.

Franz Wright

Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.

Charles Spurgeon

Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.

Dan Barker

Theology is a subject without an object

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Oswald Chambers

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

R. C. Sproul

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.