Evangelistic Gathering Quotes & Sayings

Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life - free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs - than to be artificially [stimulated]. — Billy Graham

Don't be afraid of suffering. Often scars are the medals of success. — Debasish Mridha

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect ... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first! ... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods. — Tom Wolfe

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials. — Queen Victoria

I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice. — Erwin McManus

He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out those reserves again, how the will to live would spring up again in a real emergency. He remembered how countless neurotic patients had disappeared for ever from his consulting rooms when the last war had broken out. The big worry had driven out the smaller ones, the greater fear the lesser. He made up his mind. He turned back to M. Give him one more chance. — Ian Fleming

I want to be successful, not famous. — George Harrison

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich — John Green

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. — Eden Phillpotts

Great teachers often come to us in humble packaging. That little dog held the wisdom of a sage in his heart. I learned from him that healing is not about the success or failure of the physical body, that physical survival is secondary. All creatures wish to live and thrive, but bodies do wear out. The number of days we walk the earth (or fly or swim or crawl on it) is not the point. Animals live in the present moment. If kindness, caring, and respect fill that moment, life is fill, no matter what came before or what might come in the future. A soul that feels loved is joyous and healed. — Linda Bender

Those who oppose the religious right would have a much easier time if all of the movement's leaders expressed themselves as freely as [Brad] Keena. Here's hoping his star rises. — David Corn

It is not what you are telling people, it is how you are saying it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb