First Fruits Scripture Quotes & Sayings

To paraphrase Augustine, if you want to know your God-given gifts, first know that the purpose of spiritual gifts is to bring unity to the church. Then "love God and do what you feel like doing." But there is more to the unleashing of gifts in the body. One of the bad fruits of an "I" church is that we don't tell people when they bless us. If someone has taught Sunday school and helped us understand a passage of Scripture, then we should tell the person and encourage his or her gift. If worship leaders left us rejoicing that we have been with God's people in his presence, then thank them for the specific ways they blessed you and the church. No one should have to ask what their gifts are; we should tell people their gifts as they minister to us. Can — Edward T. Welch

Maybe people could fall in love without an identity crisis. — Leah Raeder

Which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one? — Aldous Huxley

By year three, you get nicer, bigger trailers. — Peter Gallagher

So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people?
I had a bigger hole to fill.
What do you mean?
A rock star is someone with a hole in his heart almost the size of his ego. — Michka Assayas

Dust's dad owned a car parts place a county over and Dust used to help my dad with the installation. — Katie McGarry

For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path. — Eugene H. Peterson

Jocks were pretty much exempt from the standards that bound the rest of us. Teachers and administrators humor them because it's in everyone's interests to coax them through school and get them out of the building. Since it's unethical to turn them loose on society, they get sent to college to be kept out of the mix until their frontal lobes develop more fully. As enticement they are given sports scholarships that will later amount to nothing, not even good health. — Hilary Thayer Hamann

One pays dearly for any kind of mastery on earth, where perhaps one pays too dearly for everything; one is master of one's trade at the price of also being its victim. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people! — Henri Barbusse

Horrle was nodding gravely, humoring him, probably thinking that out of all these two hundred fun-loving people it was just his luck to have run into a doom merchant. McIntyre had committed the sin of pessimism, of course, forgetting, as a Brit, that out here optimism was more than a state of mind; optimism was a philosophy. — Christopher Hudson

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain. — Marianne Williamson

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions. — Charles Horton Cooley

Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look. — Stieg Larsson

Be open where you can and stealthy where you must — George R R Martin