Son Quotes - Page 90

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

Without the fans there's no reason to be One Direction.

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.

God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance

When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining itself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all "fulness of blessing," both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God.

If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

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

Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'