Balaam And The Donkey Quotes & Sayings

Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht. — Ann Coulter

Any inspiration that doesn't come from God is due for expiration. — Richmond Akhigbe

The World Health Organization is now studying Russia's experience, i.e. how we managed to produce tangible results in such a short time — Veronika Skvortsova

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking. — John Strachan

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love. — Francoise Sagan

Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases - through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam's donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live. — Craig S. Keener

As with Isaiah's vision in the Temple, and many other scenes both biblical and modern, Peter's change from fisherman to shepherd comes through his facing of his own sin and his receiving of forgiveness, as Jesus with his three-times-repeated question goes back to Peter's triple denial and then offers him forgiveness precisely in the form of a transformed and newly commissioned life. Those who don't want to face that searching question and answer may remain content to help the world with its fishing. Those who find the risen Jesus going to the roots of their rebellion, denial, and sin and offering them love and forgiveness may well also find themselves sent off to be shepherds instead. Let those with ears listen. — N. T. Wright

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey. — Shane Claiborne

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else. — Jacob Bannon

...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in... — Stephen King

No matter how rich, powerful or handsome he is, he is still just a man. — Rebecca Warner