East Quotes

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

Western culture is what is at risk from immigration from the Middle East.

Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God.

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.