Ryrie Bible Study Quotes & Sayings

I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre. — George Berkeley

And the reason I am writing this
on the back of a manila envelope
now that they have left the train together
is to tell you that when she turned
to lift the large, delicate cello
onto the overhead rack,
I saw him looking up at her
and what she was doing
the way the eyes of saints are painted
when they are looking up at God
when he is doing something remarkable,
something that identifies him as God. — Billy Collins

The gift of beauty can be found in ugly feelings. — Deborah Sandella

Thus, on the one hand, Spenser's thought is steeped in sensuous detail, so that for him there is no really abstract thinking; men, he thinks, 'should be satisfied with the use of these days, seeing all things accounted by their showes, and nothing esteemed of, that is not delightfull and pleasing to commune sense' ( Prefatory Letter). But on the other hand the details of the physical universe become translucent from the pulsing light of varied human experience which is seen behind it. His 'haunt and the main region of (his) song' is the inner life of man and it is described in the symbolism of human figures clothed in raiment iridescent with innumerable associations. His art is a development of the mediaeval. — Janet Spens

Death needs time for what it kills to grow in. — William S. Burroughs

The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals. — Charles C. Ryrie

We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream? — Robin Jones Gunn

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues. — Aesop

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things. — Rumi

Feeling at home with ourselves and being able to create a spirit of place that nourishes us physically, emotionally and spiritually is a goal worthy of our highest priority. — Alexandra Stoddard

Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories? — Emo Philips

Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight. — Andy Warhol

You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them. — Bruce Forsyth

Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities. — Sun Tzu