Use Quotes - Page 115

We take a lot of things for granted in our lives, such as gravity, air, daylight and time. Yet time is one of God's most precious gifts to us. It is the most significant non-renewable resource at our disposal. We have less of it remaining with each passing day. When God gave this gift, He intended for us to use it carefully; intentionally, wisely and productively.

One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

If now, against my will, you cause me to be polluted, a twofold purity will be gloriously imputed to me. You cannot bend my will to your purpose; whatever you do to my body, that cannot happen to me.

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.

Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes straight to his main points. The workings of the man's mind sit there naked and exposed, and all the stripped gears and misaligned cogs and broken engines of his misperception are there for easy examination. Read it, and you'll wonder how a man so confused could have acquired such a high reputation; you might even think that philosophy has been Sokaled.

You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'