Ellen G. White Quotes

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

Ellen G. White

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• Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • God
  • Nature

• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Soul
  • Creativity
  • Meaning

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Miracles

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

• Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • God
  • Long
  • Thank God

• We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Time
  • Country
  • Problems

• It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • God
  • Believe
  • Wish

• Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • God
  • Law
  • Will

• Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Want

• Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

  

  Walter Lang
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I seek out things that terrify me, like an improv class. I'm terrified of sharks, but I scuba dive. I'm not good at auditioning, but I force myself to do it all the time. I've never met anybody who is fearless, but the more you push against your own boundaries, the easier it becomes to push.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fearless

• I should have just become a manager.

  

  Drea De Matteo

• Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Free
  • Destiny

• I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Giving
  • Sacrifice
  • Glory

• Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Soul