Abdique Quotes & Sayings

At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son. — Lewis B. Smedes

The only way you can fail is if you stop praying — Mark Batterson

Human was simultaneously the bearer of God's wise rule into the world, and also the creature who would bring the loyalty and praise of that creation for its Creator into love, speech, and conscious obedience. — N. T. Wright

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. — Jack Adams

I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you. — Warren Buffett

Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind. — Napoleon Hill

Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art. — Alden Ehrenreich

One of the first of the considerations that occurred to me was that there is very often less perfection in works composed of several portions, and carried out by the hands of various masters, than in those on which one individual alone has worked. Thus we see that buildings planned and carried out by one architect alone are usually more beautiful and better proportioned than those which many have tried to put in order and improve, making use of old walls which were built with other ends in view. — Rene Descartes

scientifically speaking - you cannot. Accept it. You simply cannot make any nation completely corruption-free. It is only an absurd fairytale. It feels good to talk about it, but it cannot be made a reality. — Abhijit Naskar

The brave do what they can. The desperate do what they must. The crazy do what you least expect. Where do you think I fit in? — Boyd Morrison

If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves. — Austin O'Malley

You are still yourself in everything except your appearance. You've still got your own mind and your own brain and your own voice, and thank goodness for that. — Roald Dahl

Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape. — Mary Cantwell

Bauer's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found. — Albert Schweitzer