Son Quotes - Page 96

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

Never give up your power to another person.

Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

God would rather give up His son..than give up on us

It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

And if I die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take But please don't cry Just know that I have made these songs for you.

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I read these lines a certain sadness enters my soul. I get so preoccupied with the details and pressure of my schedule, with the hurry and worry of life, that I miss the song of goodness which is waiting to be sung through me.

Money doesn’t just buy you a better life, better food, better cars, better pussy — it also makes you a better person.

The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.

On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness: Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds.

Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally

My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.

I've never had guys sit me down and say this is what you've got to do. It's my personality that makes me one of a kind, and I believe that.