Easter Sermon Quotes & Sayings

I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is always there talking to you in the back of your head ... that tells you when it's time to go to the chorus, when it's time to rhyme. Real basic craft ... it's second nature. — Janis Ian

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. — F. Murray Abraham

Draw the attention of those who do things out of spite, to something else, away from what you wish to avoid. — Nabil N. Jamal

Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest. — George W. Bush

The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy. — Willard Van Orman Quine

People do evil simply because they do not know. — Cheng Yi

It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives. — Zig Ziglar

The more interviews that an expert had done with the press, Tetlock found, the worse his predictions tended to be. — Nate Silver

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general. — Jacqueline Emerson

I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.' — Iman

One of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth. — Machado De Assis

It takes great faith in Easter, particularly faith in the gift of the Holy Spirit, to be honest with our people that we have not a clue to the meaning of some biblical passage, or that we have no sense of a satisfying ending for a sermon, or that we are unsure of precisely what the congregation ought to do after hearing a given text. The most ethically dangerous time within a sermon is toward the end of the sermon, when we move from proclamation to application and act as if we know more than God. 133 — William H. Willimon

The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot for it. — Danny Meyer

The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand out. — Aldous Huxley

Most choose to pretend they're ignorant of the facts because the system works. The idea of changing it scares them more than giving it their tacit approval. — Joelle Charbonneau