Rip Quotes - Page 7

If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!

Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.

If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.

I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.

The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.

Explain the Scriptures by the Scriptures.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

We're all the scriptures. We live the scriptures. The scriptures doesn't manifest unless it is amongst human beings and the scriptures are for us, written by us. The scriptures didn't write itself. We wrote the scriptures.

When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.

Worship songs can't just be rooted in culture - they won't be deep enough. They have to be rooted in scripture.

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip!

Christ was treated as we deserve that we may be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His. 'By His stripes we are healed.

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.

I am in the jungle and I am too fast for you. You have teeth and stripes and things that tear. But I am much too fast… You want my flesh, but you don’t know where the jungle is… Only I know where the jungle is… Only I know… I am a gazelle. I am a gazelle and the jungle is my home.

The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.

We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

Rip Van Winkle would be the ideal stock market investor: Rip could invest in the market before his nap and when he woke up 20 years later, he'd be happy. He would have been asleep through all the ups and downs in between. But few investors resemble Mr. Van Winkle. The more often an investor counts his money - or looks at the value of his mutual funds in the newspaper - the lower his risk tolerance.

I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'