Elbrus Eldra Quotes & Sayings

Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so melancholy, worldlings say, "The religion of Jesus is intolerable;" and so you stain the honor of God. — Charles Spurgeon

Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere figure of speech. It is the very essence of our minds as we seek to make sense of our surroundings, our experiences, ourselves, seeing similarities, parallels, connections. We cannot help it. Even as the mind fails, it goes on trying to make sense of what is happening to it. — Connie Willis

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. — Maya Angelou

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do. — John Hurt

No, I'm a very normal and orthodox person that goes out of their way to present eccentricity. It's not that I do that so much now but I've been doing it for so many years that it's become routine now. — Tony Kaye

Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real? — Marie Rutkoski

Chess is and will always be a game of chance. — Jan Hein Donner

Soul is a feeling, not a color, — Lionel Richie

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible
and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else. — Rudyard Kipling

The reality is even if you are a hands-on Mayor or Governor or chief executive, at best, you must know about 10 or 20% of what's going on. Otherwise, you never get through the day ... I was very hands on, and there's lots of stuff I didn't know, and lots of things that either went wrong or right that I would find out about afterwards. — Rudy Giuliani

Before we can minister to others, we must permit God to minister to us. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty. — J.C. Ryle

For one hit he'd done a version of Victor/Victoria, pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man when he'd been hired to kill a paranoid and heavily guarded government official. — Pauline Baird Jones

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path? — Confucius