Rightly Divide Quotes & Sayings

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. — Edmund Wilson

Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions — Jack Ramsay

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. — Betty Friedan

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons? — Socrates

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them. — Tom Glazer

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. — Isaac Asimov

Life is depressing and hopeless enough, without imbibing further depression and hopelessness through story. I don't care how realistic people like to think that is. It's not what inspires me, or makes me love and cherish a book or a television show or a movie. When I am imbibing fiction, I want to be inspired. I want bold tales, told boldly. I want genuine Good People who, while not perfect, are capable of rising beyond their ordinary beginnings. To make a positive difference in their world. Even when all hope or purpose might seem lost. Because this is what I think fiction - as originally told around the campfires, through verbal legend - ought to do, more than anything else: Illuminate the way, shine a spiritual beacon, tell us that there is a bright point in the darkness, a light to guide the way, when all other paths are cast in shadow. — Brad R. Torgersen

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine. — Alison Lohman

She believed me fearless. But nothing frightened me as much as my sister's fears. — Jojo Moyes

The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out. — James Horner

Sophie couldn't stop smiling. It had to be true that nature was built up of small parts that never changed. At the same time Heraclitus was obviously right in thinking that all forms in nature 'flow'. Because everybody dies, animals die, even a mountain range slowly disintegrates. The point was that the mountain range is made up of tiny indivisible parts that never break up. — Jostein Gaarder

Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life. — Eugene H. Peterson

Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn. — Lancelot Andrewes

The ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different interpretation of matter and the world, a new attitude of humankind toward nature, and a new understanding of how we acquire and make use of our material goods. — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth. — John Nelson Darby

You and I, in our quest for truth, must set ourselves on a higher level. If the worldly reasoner
is like a butcher, we wish not to be found like them - minus fingers or thumbs. Spiritual reasoning
can be a very sharp blade; it behooves us, then, to 'rightly divide'. — D.L. Herring