Lipstein Quotes & Sayings

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants. The latter is our goal. — Beth Moore

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think. — Warren Zevon

We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. — Saul Bellow

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place. — Helen Clark

Don't want to slump over the oars. — James Genn

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made ... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven. — Saint Augustine

Unity is the intentional inclination to corporately control our destination. In other words, achieving the dream takes a team! — DeWayne Owens

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre — Archibald Alexander Hodge

It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in. — Kate Reardon

Not the historians. No, not them. Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, how things come about, when they have only what the past chose to leave behind
for the most part, they think what they were meant to think, and it's a rare one that sees what really happened, behind the smokescreen of artifacts and paper ... No, the fault lies with the artists ... The writers, the singers, the tellers of tales. It's them that take the past and re-create it to their liking. Them that could take a fool and give you back a hero, take a sot and make him a king ... Liars? ... or sorcerers? Do they see the bones in the dust of the earth, see the essence of a thing that was, and clothe it in new flesh, so the plodding beast reemerges as a fabulous monster? — Diana Gabaldon

To consciously evolve, we require clear vision of a compassionate future that draws out our enthusiastic participation in life. — Duane Elgin

Kung asks the right question. The issue is not why does God punish sin but why does He permit the ongoing human rebellion? — R.C. Sproul

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing. — Andrea Martin

Skylar is my first name and Astin is my middle name, and my real last name is Lipstein. When I was 15, I think my first agent just kind of did it for me. I'm not ashamed, I'm not embarrassed, but she said it was just less specific to one thing and she kind of chopped it off. But forever to my friends I will be Skylar Lipstein. — Skylar Astin