Semple Mcpherson Quotes & Sayings

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl! — Aimee Semple McPherson

O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way. — Aimee Semple McPherson

I love drama. I love to play an arc. — Dee Wallace

Lift up your heads, ye people,
lift up your faces, too,
open your mouths to sing His praise,
and the rain will fall on you. — Aimee Semple McPherson

Let's keep that our little secret, shall we. — Aimee Semple McPherson

Her room is full of books by people who have radio hours. It's the gospel according to Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, and Aimee Semple McPherson - American dynamism gilded onto a platform of individual redemption. It's religion as detergent. — Carlene Bauer

I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what. — Aimee Semple McPherson

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better. — Garrison Keillor

At one end of the national spectrum is white, shining peace - that city-on-a-hill concept. At the other end is black, raging, savage war at the foot of that hill. The space between is the gray zone where the haze of diplomacy and combat meet and bleed into one another. That's where the CIA works. — Jamie Smith

These cultures come and go for a boundless enthusiasim for histories that might have never existed — J.J. Ratter

There are always far more people in the world who make things worse, rather than help out. — Haruki Murakami

We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin ... — Aimee Semple McPherson

Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break. — Aimee Semple McPherson

Later, she said, "I have to take my braids out for my interviews and relax my hair. Kemi told me that I shouldn't wear braids to the interview. If you have braids, they will think you are unprofessional." "So there are no doctors with braided hair in America?" Ifemelu asked. "I have told you what they told me. You are in a country that is not your own. You do what you have to do if you want to succeed. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies. — John Dos Passos

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt. — William Shakespeare

I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do. — Taya Kyle

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit. — Aimee Semple McPherson

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service. — Jesse Jackson

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario. — Dorothy Parker

With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world! — Aimee Semple McPherson