Toplady Rock Quotes & Sayings

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly

When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning. — John O'Donohue

How ill I have written. I begin to hate myself. — Jane Austen

I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil. — Charles Jencks

Charles Wesley fully sided with the Arminianism of his brother John, and abused his poetic gift by writing poor doggerel against Calvinism.847 He had a bitter controversy on the subject with Toplady, who was a devout Calvinist. But their theological controversy is dead and buried, while their devotional hymns still live, and Calvinists and Methodists heartily join in singing Wesley's "Jesus, Lover of my Soul," and Toplady's "Rock of Ages, cleft for me. — Philip Schaff

life never comes straight at you, it sneaks up and gives you whatever it gives, not what you want. No matter what you think. — Bart Hopkins Jr.

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee. — Augustus Toplady

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking. — Walead Beshty

Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts! — Mary Parker Follett

The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it. I've carved a life out for myself in Oregon, and it feels like home, not because it's the States but because that's where my friends are and where my son is. — Patrick DeWitt

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage. — George Foreman

But life is for living, isn't it? We all have to find some way to carry on. — Laura Barnett