Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

C. S. Lewis

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Charles R. Swindoll

I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Ayn Rand

Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

Arthur Koestler

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

English Proverbs

When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is the greatest danger, there is also the greatest help from Him who wants to be called our 'Help' in times of peace and in times of tribulation.

David A. Bednar

Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you.

Swami Vivekananda

Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man

Stanley Hauerwas

I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.

William Blake

He who would see the Divinity must see him in his Children.

Blaise Pascal

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

Deepak Chopra

Everyone has a spark of divinity inside them. After all, we were created in the image of God.

Sathya Baba

Since Divinity is enveloped by humanness you must endeavor to overcome the Maya (delusion) that hides it from your eyes.

Aristotle

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

Alan Cohen

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Jose Rizal

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Daniel Woodrell

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

Bobby Bowden

When they pick the all-time missed field-goal coach, I'll probably get the award. We're masters at that.

Jules Verne

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Zeresenay Alemseged

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

Dave Parker

He is 50-50 right now for the Masters but we should know more after the operation.

Bobby Darin

There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.

Bryant H. McGill

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

Alexander Lowen

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Aaron Allston

I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.