Royden Quotes & Sayings

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them. — Maude Royden

War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are imposed. There is ultimately no way of combating a wrong idea but the setting forth of a right one. — Maude Royden

In an era when most bands were about nothing, the Manics were about everything: an eloquent scream, a j'accuse to the entire moribund millennium. — Simon Price

For storms will rage and oceans roar,
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born. — Deborah Harkness

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead — Diana Vreeland

The corruption of the best is the worst ... — Maude Royden

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer. — Maude Royden

We are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame. — Maude Royden

Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self assuredness, and in faith. — Royden G. Derrick

Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal. — Maude Royden

When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity. — Royden G. Derrick

There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now. — Maude Royden

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen. — Maude Royden

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. — Bill Viola

It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell. — Maude Royden

We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them. — Maude Royden

The film I like the best is always the one I'm working on now or next. — Ewan McGregor

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war. — Maude Royden

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods. — Jim Hightower

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Supervision is an opportunity to bring someone back to their own mind, to show them how good they can be. — Nancy Kline

When you look for these support groups, they all have vague upbeat names. My Thursday evening group for blood parasites, it's called Free and Clear. — Chuck Palahniuk

It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women. — Maude Royden

We are not required to go through [Jesus'] trials, but we are required to be willing to go through them. To prove that we are willing to do so, we must go through our own trials and remain faithful. — Royden G. Derrick

Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is "the fear of the Lord". Fear God and be wise. — Israelmore Ayivor

I know that I cannot control anyone else's actions but my own, and how I choose to react to situations. — Erin Willett

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin