Creedal Christian Quotes & Sayings

One of the greatest crimes committed by this present Christian generation is its neglect of the gospel, and it is from this neglect that all our other maladies spring forth. The lost world is not so much gospel hardened as it is gospel ignorant because many of those who proclaim the gospel are also ignorant of its most basic truths. The essential themes that make up the very core of the gospel - the justice of God, the radical depravity of man, the blood atonement, the nature of true conversion, and the biblical basis of assurance - are absent from too many pulpits. Churches reduce the gospel message to a few creedal statements, teach that conversion is a mere human decision, and pronounce assurance of salvation over anyone who prays the sinner's prayer. — Paul David Washer

It's not easy is it? Being a great man's son. You'd thought that would come with all kinds of advantages - with borrowed admiration, and respect. But it's only as easy as it is for the seeds of a great tree, trying to grow in its choking shadow. Not many make it to the sunlight for themselves. — Joe Abercrombie

The number of matter quanta in a given region or state is limited by the Exclusion Principle. — Rodney A. Brooks

Smite a villein and he will bless you; bless a villein and he will smite you. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Being is beauty. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a set of creedal statements is a lot less important, because I realize the Christian movement thrived then and can now on other elements of the tradition. — Elaine Pagels

One way isn't better than the other; they're just different. — Emily Giffin

Life is short but donation of life could have a long life. — Debasish Mridha

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness. — Walter Raleigh

I think that ... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done. — Joe Perry

Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place. — Michael Medved

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do. — Mahatma Gandhi

Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn't even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack. — Jacques Lacan

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. — Samuel Butler

Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need. — Czeslaw Milosz

For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war. — Jan Eliasson

Nora saw that people don't always say what they think, Or say what they think they are saying. — Orit Gidali