Teached Them Quotes & Sayings

Passions have made mortals of us men. If men were not slaves of passion, they would have been Gods, each one. — Khushwant Singh

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God. — Mahatma Gandhi

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. — Joseph Joubert

Jesus was not revolutionary because he said we should love God and each other. Moses said that first. So did Buddha, Confucius, and countless other religious leaders we've never heard of. Madonna, Oprah, Dr. Phil, the Dali Lama, and probably a lot of Christian leaders will tell us that the point of religion is to get us to love each other. "God loves you" doesn't stir the world's opposition. However, start talking about God's absolute authority, holiness, ... Christ's substitutionary atonement, justification apart from works, the necessity of new birth, repentance, baptism, Communion, and the future judgment, and the mood in the room changes considerably. — Michael S. Horton

Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and my best wishes for the Papacy which you begin today. [to Pope Benedict XVI] — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense. — John Ruskin

There is still a lot to be said for the well-made, witty, clever, three-act comedy. — Terry Teachout

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it. — Robert M. Pirsig

Nothing worth achieving is easy or quick. — Jacquelyn Middleton

I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana. — Tamsin Greig

Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness. — Frederick Lenz

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. — Wilfrid Sheed

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy. — Claude C. Hopkins

When a legislator succeeds, after persevering efforts, in exercising an indirect influence upon the destiny of nations, his genius is lauded by mankind, whilst, in point of fact, the geographical position of the country which he is unable to change, a social condition which arose without his co-operation, manners and opinions which he cannot trace to their source, and an origin with which he is unacquainted, exercise so irresistible an influence over the courses of society that he is himself borne away by the current, after an ineffectual resistance. Like the navigator, he may direct the vessel which bears him along, but he can neither change its structure, nor raise the winds, nor lull the waters which swell beneath him. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can. — Duke Of Wellington

Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school. — David Beckham