Race Quotes - Page 122

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Give us grace to listen well.

When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.

I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.

Race has no place in American life or law.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

I have a lot of confidence in myself, a lot of confidence in the race team, our equipment, and as my mind plays its games on me, I just fall back on the team.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.

"On Pat Hearne - He made money in stocks, and that made people ask him for advice. He would never give any. If they asked him point-blank for his opinion about the wisdom of their commitments he used a favorite race-track maxim of his: "You can't tell till you bet.""

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.

Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul said in Romans 11:6, "And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace." Our relationship with God is based on either works or grace. There is never a works-plus-grace relationship with Him.

So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.