Gemistocytes Quotes & Sayings

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future. — Charles Baudelaire

Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself is self-authenticated ... Therefore, illumined by his power, we believe neither by our own nor by any one else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men. — John Calvin

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny. — William E. Gladstone

When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance. — Spalding Gray

And the What Ifs are the worst. — Susane Colasanti

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love. — Jack Nicholson