Matt Cushman Quotes & Sayings

Christ came to prove that God tells the truth, that God keeps his promises. Christmas means that God can be trusted. — John Piper

Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. And those who learn to listen are the most loved and respected. — Richard Carlson

When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers' accounts. — Mervyn King

Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing ... metaphors support lyrics like bones. — Pat Pattison

Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being. — Slavoj Zizek

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. — Ulysses S. Grant

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. — Mark Twain

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs. — Friedrich Schiller