Lightning Thief Movie Quotes & Sayings

If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity. — William Carey

He can't take his eyes off the stars, but I can't take mine off his face. — Amie Kaufman

Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat. — Joel Osteen

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice. — Swami Vivekananda

It is this that ruins churches, that you do not seek to hear sermons that touch the heart, but sermons that will delight your ears with their intonation and the structure of their phrases, just as if you were listening to singers and lute-players. And we preachers humor your fancies, instead of trying to crush them. We act like a father who gives a sick child a cake or an ice, or something else that is merely nice to eat
just because he asks for it; and takes no pains to give him what is good for him; and then when the doctors blame him says, 'I could not bear to hear my child cry.' ... That is what we do when we elaborate beautiful sentences, fine combinations and harmonies, to please and not to profit, to be admired and not to instruct, to delight and not to touch you, to go away with your applause in our ears, and not to better your conduct. — John Chrysostom

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense. — Mary Doria Russell

How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught? — Ursula K. Le Guin

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. — Annie Dillard

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep. — Rich Mullins

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time. — Bob Dylan

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers. — Michael K. Williams

There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool. — George R R Martin