Tetelestai Greek Quotes & Sayings

It was as if we'd pressed ourselves together until his bones passed through mine and we were the same person, ever so briefly. — Paula McLain

I come straight from hell, Cell 23 — Lil' Wayne

Even if I get into television and movies, I'm never going to quit YouTube because of the bond I have with my viewers. — Shane Dawson

When the gospel does take root in the heart, the sign of it is that Christians are led to "establish their complete happiness in him." Unless people experience this, "they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him."154 You don't have true saving knowledge of God until you long to know and serve him. Such a soul "restrains itself from sinning, not out of dread of punishment alone; but because it loves and reveres God as Father. . . . Even if there were no hell, it would still shudder at offending him. — Timothy Keller

If you think that I'm nuts, you may be right. But I'm a nut with a positive attitude, baby! — Jeffrey Gitomer

My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athletic body. — Gigi Hadid

[Jesus] tilted His head back, pulled up one last time to draw breath and cried, "Tetelestai!" It was a Greek expression most everyone present would have understood. It was an accounting term. Archaeologists have found papyrus tax receipts with "Tetelestai" written across them, meaning "paid in full." With Jesus' last breath on the cross, He declared the debt of sin cancelled, completely satisfied. Nothing else required. Not good deeds. Not generous donations. Not penance or confession or baptism or ... or ... or ... nothing. The penalty for sin is death, and we were all born hopelessly in debt. He paid our debt in full by giving His life so that we might live forever. — Charles R. Swindoll

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become. — George R R Martin

If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God's name is used so often in profanity in the entertainment world that sometimes it is embarrassing to watch television. — Billy Graham

But at least I tried — Ken Kesey

33 Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself: and the wife see that she reverence her husband. If every man were as pure and as self-sacrificing as Jesus is said to have been in his relations to the Church, respect, honor and obedience from the wife might be more easily rendered. Let every man love his wife (not wives) points to monogamic marriage. It is quite natural for women to love and to honor good men, and to return a full measure of love on husbands who bestow much kindness and attention on them; but it is not easy to love those who treat us spitefully in any relation, except as mothers; their love triumphs over all shortcomings and disappointments. Occasionally conjugal love combines that of the mother. Then the kindness and the forbearance of a wife may surpass all understanding. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life. — Haruki Murakami

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down. — Wayne Rooney

Fear is the single most self-defeating emotion in our lives. — Richard Carlson