Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

The wages of sin are an expensive infection.

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• Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • Product

• Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Future
  • Past
  • Judging

• The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Opportunities
  • London

• Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Desire
  • Teach

• Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Conversation
  • Personal

• When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Good
  • Music
  • Experience

• If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Reality
  • Jesus

• I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Children
  • Night
  • Die

• Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Party
  • Sea
  • Chinese

• A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

  

  Annie Jump Cannon
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Science

• Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Acting
  • Actor
  • Critic

• Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Poetry
  • Direction
  • Prose

• Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • Forever

• Zeal is the chief source, or one of the chief sources of spiritual power. God employs living souls to communicate life. In all ages, men of zeal have produced great results. This qualification, in the absence of others, can accomplish wonders.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.

  

  Adele
  • Bad
  • Drama
  • I Love

• I'm very fond of piano players.

  

  Michael Parkinson
  • Player
  • Piano
  • Affection

• Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to exalt a highly unlikely, unknowable, unseeable, unprovable and unbelievable pretend afterworld. The only afterlife that ought to concern us is leaving our descendants (along with the other animals and life we share our planet with) a secure and pleasant future.

  

  Annie Laurie Gaylor
  • World
  • Effort
  • Animal

• The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!

  

  Benedict of Nursia
  • Words
  • Silence
  • Sin

• The wages of sin are an expensive infection.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Sin
  • Wages
  • Infection