Lines Quotes - Page 6

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

You can't measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.

God will dare to do the impossible in your life if you dare to step across the faith line.

Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.

I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.

Once you've committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.

That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.

Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfiling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers.