Melanchthon Philipp Quotes & Sayings

Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it. — Katie Kacvinsky

Little things really belong to you," she said, folding the fan. "They don't have to be left behind. You can carry them in a shoebox. — Truman Capote

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity. — Philipp Melanchthon

The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;-
The happy days unclouded to their close;
The sudden joys that our of darkness start
As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that blows! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love producing shows. And so when you're on a show where other people are making decisions you don't necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger. — Simon Cowell

The Lord help me to press after God forever — David Brainerd

We must seek the truth, love it, defend it, and hand it down uncorrupted to our posterity. — Philipp Melanchthon

Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ. — Philipp Melanchthon

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree. — Marc Newson

God will certainly care for all His creation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of other nations and of ours may be summoned together to deliberate about all the controversies and that there be handed down to posterity one harmonious, true, and clear form of doctrine, without any ambiguity. Meanwhile, as far as possible, let us encourage the union of our churches with measured advice. — Philipp Melanchthon

The eyes are witnesses that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty- four hours. But certain men, either from the love of novelty, or to make a display of ingenuity, have concluded that the earth moves; and they maintain that neither the eighth sphere nor the sun revolves ... Now, it is a want of honesty and decency to assert such notions publicly, and the example is pernicious. It is the part of a good mind to accept the truth as revealed by God and to acquiesce in it. — Philipp Melanchthon

It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers. — Philipp Melanchthon

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws. — Philipp Melanchthon

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music. — Michael Tilson Thomas

A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner - continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you - is a fine art, in and of itself. — Elizabeth Gilbert