Du Toit Quotes & Sayings

12:16 Esteem everyone with the same respect; no one is more important than the other. Associate yourself rather with the lowly than with the lofty. Do not distance yourself from others in your own mind. ("Take a real interest in ordinary people." - JB Phillips) — Francois Du Toit

My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard. — Natalie Du Toit

The destiny of the logos was not the printed page. A mirror can only reflect the object; likewise, the purpose of the page was only to reflect the message which is "Christ in you. — Francois Du Toit

It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream. — Natalie Du Toit

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but you've got a lot of downtime as well. — Elize Du Toit

But he's still your family, right? You run together. See, that's important. Nothing's more important. But you can't," she coughed again, "you can't have a pack that's so big that just everybody's in it. I'm not saying you shouldn't care about people. Try to help them. But you can't take it all on yourself, girl. That's all I'm saying. — Masha Du Toit

I'm just not very good at glamour ... It doesn't come easily to me. — Elize Du Toit

The mission of Jesus was not to begin the Christian religion. His mandate was to reveal and redeem the image and likeness of God in human form. While — Francois Du Toit

Jesus is what the Bible is all about, and you are what Jesus is all about. (John 5:39) — Francois Du Toit

Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection. — Masha Du Toit

By 9:30 at night, I go to bed. — Natalie Du Toit

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. — Natalie Du Toit

My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning. — Natalie Du Toit

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts. — Natalie Du Toit

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else. — Natalie Du Toit

I never thought of being disadvantaged. — Natalie Du Toit

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it. — Natalie Du Toit

I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop. — Natalie Du Toit

Beyond the tablet of stone, the papyrus scroll or parchment roll, human life has become the articulate voice of God. Jesus is the crescendo of God's conversation with humankind; he gives context and content to the authentic thought. Everything that God had in mind for man is voiced in him. Jesus is God's language. — Francois Du Toit

What must I do now?"
Mrs. Muller considered her silently for a while. "You are still a child. You must go where you are told and do as you are told. But it won't always be so. Soon you will be in charge of yourself. Until that time: Be aware. Listen. Look. Touch. Smell. And remember. But for now, you must go home. — Masha Du Toit

Agape is your genesis. Loving everyone around you is what you are all about." (Our love for one another is awakened by God's love for us.) — Francois Du Toit

To be here, is a dream come true. A dream is something that you set for yourself, not what other people set for you. When I qualified in Seville I burst into tears. I couldn't believe that I was going to the Olympic Games. — Natalie Du Toit

7:23 You are not for sale (to the law of works). The ransom God paid for your freedom now binds you to the lordship of his love. The sign over your life says, SOLD! — Francois Du Toit

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine. — Elize Du Toit

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi. — Natalie Du Toit

16:20 God who is the author of our peace shall quickly and utterly trample 1Satan, doing it with your feet. Your victory is realized in the revelation of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and echoed (personalized) in your amen. (We are the body of Christ. God desires to demonstrate his reign of peace in us by confirming satan's defeat in our practical day to day experience. The defeat of 1accusation is celebrated in what grace communicates. The word, 1satanos, means accuser. The law of faith defeated the law of works!) — Francois Du Toit

The more we aware we become of God in us, the more overwhelmed we are with a sense of total fulfilment and completeness; needs disappear into insignificance. He is not a God who is a far of; he is Emmanuel! Nothing you can seek to do or wish and pray for could qualify you more for life. Nothing can make you more attractive or your life more significant than to simply become aware of his nature and presence in you and his favour towards you mirrored in the finished work of Christ — Francois Du Toit

It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me. — Natalie Du Toit

15:58 For this reason you can afford to be absolutely settled and rock-solid in faith's persuasion and always ready to go beyond where you would have gone before. Your doing now is inspired by your knowing that you are in him. If his resurrection is yours then his victory over sin and death is equally yours. — Francois Du Toit

To struggle to do means to fail to see. Doing spontaneously is directly related to perceiving and realising the integrity of your individual identity and value. Doing follows conclusion. I am, therefore I can! — Francois Du Toit

2:2 The testimony of God is my only persuasion concerning you: Jesus Christ died your death on the cross! I can see you in no other light! (For I determined to know nothing in you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.) — Francois Du Toit

1:22 He accomplished this in dying our death in a human body; he fully represented us in order to fully present us again in blameless innocence, face-to-face with God; with no sense of guilt, suspicion, regret, or accusation; all charges against us are officially cancelled. — Francois Du Toit

The moment you exchange spontaneity with rules you've lost the edge of romance — Francois Du Toit

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them. — Natalie Du Toit

Eph 4:9 The fact that he ascended confirms his victorious descent into the deepest pits of human despair. [In John 3:13: "No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, even the son of man." All mankind originates from above; we are anouthen, from above. — Francois Du Toit

15:22 In Adam all died; in Christ all are made alive. — Francois Du Toit

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything. — Natalie Du Toit

I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been. — Natalie Du Toit

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals. — Natalie Du Toit

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders. — Natalie Du Toit

Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority — Francois Du Toit

Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest. — Natalie Du Toit

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied. — Natalie Du Toit

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life. — Natalie Du Toit

I think I've achieved everything I wanted to. — Natalie Du Toit

I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.' — Natalie Du Toit

I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000. — Natalie Du Toit

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with. — Natalie Du Toit

in the midst of a people who have forgotten their true sonship and whose lives have become distorted and perverse. (In this verse Paul quotes Deut 32:5 from the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew text, with reference to Deut 32:4,5 18. In context God's perfect workmanship as Father of mankind is forgotten; people have become "crooked and perverse" twisted and distorted out of their true pattern of sonship. Deut 32:18 says, you have forgotten the Rock that begot you and have gotten out of step with the God — Francois Du Toit

I'm probably the most negative person around. — Natalie Du Toit

10:13 Your situation is not unique! Every human life faces contradictions! Here is the good news: God believes in your freedom! He has made it possible for you to triumph in every situation that you will ever encounter! 10:14 My 1dearly loved friends! Escape into his image and likeness in you where the 2distorted image (2idolatry) loses its attraction! (Dearly loved friends, translated as 1agapetos; to know the agape love of God is to know our true identity! The word, agape, comes from agoo, meaning to lead as a shepherd guides his sheep, and pao, to rest, like in Psalm 23, "he leads me beside still waters where my soul is restored; by the waters of reflection my soul remembers who I am! Now I can face the valley of the shadow of death and fear no evil!") — Francois Du Toit

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one. — Natalie Du Toit

8:3 Loving God (and your fellow man) is so easy when you understand that he knows you! Let God's knowledge of you inspire your love for him and your fellow man. — Francois Du Toit

Every invention begins with an original thought. You are God's original thought. You are his initiative, the fruit of his creative inspiration, his intimate design and love-dream. — Francois Du Toit

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey. — Elize Du Toit

12:13 Purpose with resolve to treat strangers as saints; pursue and embrace them with fondness as friends on equal terms of fellowship. Make yourself useful in the most practical way possible. (Eph 3:18) — Francois Du Toit

After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.' — Dave Brubeck

Swimming is my passion and something that I love. — Natalie Du Toit

1:4 There is no contradiction of any proportion that we can possibly face that has what it takes to exasperate us or distance us from God. Our consciousness of his inseparable nearness immediately reinforces us to extend the same tangible 1closeness to you in your difficult times, and together we snuggle up in the 1comfort of his intimate embrace! — Francois Du Toit