Son Quotes - Page 67

What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is an image or picture of reality painted with logical symbols instead of with words, sounds or watercolors.

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.

Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland

Joy to the world All the boys and girls now Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me

I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use. It was without end or reason. The most beautfiul things in it, a flower or a song, as well as the most compelling, a desire or a thought, were pointless. So great a sorrow. And I knew that the only rest from my anxiety—for I had been trembling even in infancy—lay in acknowledging and absorbing this sadness.

Cricket was my reason for living.

President Obama can find time to meet with a YouTube personality who eats cereal out of a bathtub, but not the prime minister of our ally Israel?

We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To the age-old question, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ the confessional answer is shocking: ‘Nothing! Just be still; shut up and listen for once in your life to what God the Almighty, creator and redeemer, is saying to his world and to you in the death and resurrection of his Son! Listen and believe!’

The history of a people are found in its songs.

I'm a person who loves people. It's all about the vibe of the environment I'm working in.

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become.

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.

The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.

A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.

There is danger in singing someone else's song.

God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.

There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.

We're not called to live by human reason. All that matters is obedience to God's Word and his leading in our lives. if God says go,we'll go. If he says stay, we'll stay. When we are in his will, we are in the safest place in the world.