Kenneth L. Pike Quotes

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Kenneth L. Pike

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• In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • You
  • Need

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• With the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the questions has been ticked off the list, but there are many others. We hope that we can find answers or hints for answers to at least some of them. But of course, this is in the hands of nature.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Nature
  • Hope
  • Hands

• God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • Loved
  • Silly

• I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • People
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Today
  • Day

• I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'

  

  Adam DeVine
  • God
  • Movie
  • Want

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Singing

• Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical sciences. Mutual support has almost no use in other disciplines, such as attainment of intuitive knowledge of God or spiritual progress.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Support

• When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Need
  • Meaning

• If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is attainable.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Nature
  • Simple
  • Inside

• It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

  

  J Mascis
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Edge

• The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • God
  • Speak
  • Ignorance

• 'I never believed in God before.' - that I understand. But not: 'I never really believed in Him before.'

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • God

• Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • God
  • Future
  • Sleep

• I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Hand
  • Forever
  • Sun

• 'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Life
  • Long

• When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • God
  • Truth
  • Nature