Son Quotes - Page 28

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.

When you are able to love someone unconditionally , without reason, you can begin to understand God's unconditional love for you.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."

Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.

You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

Those who have truly decided to serve the Lord God should practice the remembrance of God and uninterrupted prayer to Jesus Christ, mentally saying: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.

God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream, a new dream that when realized will release a new song, sung with tears, till God wipes them away and we sing with nothing but joy in our hearts.

The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.

Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of itand any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.