Beetje Bij Quotes & Sayings

One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them ... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality. — John Ortberg

Someone told me I'm a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist. — Wade Kelly

Nothing is more vital to him than prejudices. Let us not take this word in bad part. It does not necessarily signify false ideas, but only, in the strict sense of the word, any opinions adopted without examination. Now, these kinds of opinion are essential to man; they are the real basis of his happiness and the palladium of empires. Without them, there can be neither religion, morality, nor government. There should be a state religion just as there is a state political system; or rather, religion and political dogmas, mingled and merged together, should together form a general or national mind sufficiently strong to repress the aberrations of the individual reason which is, of its nature, the mortal enemy of any association whatever because it gives birth only to divergent opinions. — Joseph De Maistre

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence ... — John Adams

All children are our responsibility and should always be safe. We must do what we can to help them stay safe, wel and educated. The future of humanity depands on it. Without children ... earth will not have a future. — Timothy Pina

You're just so lucky blood's so hard to get out of the carpet. — Lois Greiman

Though Moneyball had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders. — Brad Pitt

You're meat when I've been fucking starving my whole life, so fucking accept it. You're mine. Mine. Got it?" I — Skye Warren

None but God would have ever thought of justifying such a man as Saul the persecutor; but the Lord God is glorious in grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness. — Thomas Boston

Although the realization of values in a culture may seem on the surface to be concerned merely with the temporal and material, this is appearance only, for man is a spiritual being destined for eternity, exhaustively accountable to his Creator-Lord. — Henry R. Van Til

It was my decision, it always has been. I decide my own destiny. I can be guided towards it but in the end the decision is mine alone. — S.E. Fearon

I think the whole '2112' album took somewhere around a week to do. — Alex Lifeson