Martin Luther Quotes

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

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• Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

  

  Maimonides
  • Power
  • High
  • Respect

• Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Success
  • Beautiful

• If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Text
  • Faithful

• Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Judged

• Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Pride

• Look, one of the things that I know for sure is that none of us truly knows. That's it. It'll hit you later.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Knows
  • Looks

• I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Body
  • Yoga
  • Self

• Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Night

• I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Earth
  • Dark
  • Winter

• ...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma

• I look at camping the same way I look at horror movies. All the years that humans fought to get into caves and into shelters - it almost seems sacrilegious to go outside and sleep without a roof. We work so hard to have these things!

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Movies

• There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Clothes
  • Shoot

• I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Coffee
  • Lover

• I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Writing
  • Giving

• I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Movie
  • Possibility
  • Rewrite

• To my mind, it’s one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some satisfactory answer to the question, What is this like? Or, What does this remind me of? A comparison is laboriously but successfully introduced. You meet your metaphor, and it’s good.

  

  Brad Leithauser
  • Writer
  • Poet
  • Metaphor

• We didn't necessarily have the best day today. Looking back, it was an ugly game two years ago.

  

  Brady Quinn
  • Game
  • Looking Back

• If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Christ
  • Interpret
  • Applies